Just 48 short years ago, movie director George Lucas used the phrase "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" as the ...

If the object really is Planet Nine, it would be larger than Neptune and exist 700 times further from the sun than Earth.

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Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, ...

The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of ...

A Harvard professor questions whether research conducted at the University of Cambridge about life on K2-18b is accurate.

By closely studying light anomalies caused by a newly discovered planet’s host star, and combining this information with a ...

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...

“As a person goes further and further away from the Earth, and even in low Earth orbit like the space station – about 250 miles or so above the surface of Earth – they get much higher doses of more ...

After the 'best ever signs of life' were spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope, a scientist has explained what these ...