One billionaire wants to move industry off-world, returning Earth to a pristine state. The other wants to colonise Mars.

In addition to the exoplanet’s polar orbit, the brown dwarf pair itself is extraordinarily rare. They form an eclipsing ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

A stellar occultation this month gave scientists an opportunity to scrutinize the seventh planet from the Sun.

Harmful bleaching of the world's coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean's reefs in the most intense event of its kind in ...

The White House Office of Management and Budget announced the Trump administration’s plan to roll back the Public Lands Rule, ...

This Friday right before sunrise, the moon, Venus and Saturn will create a smiley face in the eastern horizon for a brief ...