In the '80s, the image of the Earth floating in the vacuum of space acted as a collective wake-up call: this is our planet, ...

Chinese astronauts Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie's return to Earth has been postponed over concerns that their ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing ...

Celebrities have started to arrive on the green carpet as the annual Earthshot Prize awards get underway in Brazil, with ...

A time-lapse view of Antarctica & the moon can be seen in footage captured by the Meteosat-11 satellite. Credit: Simon Proud ...

Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to check if another Earth-sized planet orbits Proxima Centauri, our nearest ...

Exoplanet scientists are eagerly awaiting the discovery of an atmosphere around a terrestrial exoplanet. Not a thin, tenuous, ...

Google envisions putting a legion of satellites into a special kind of orbit that rides along the day-night terminator, where ...

A giant exoplanet orbiting a nearby dwarf star has been found in an ideal location for next-generation telescopes to search ...

Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet’s worst mass ...