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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered GJ 251 c, a rocky super-Earth just 20 light-years away, one of the most promising nearby worlds ...

The discovery of a new celestial object in the Earth's neighborhood has created a buzz online asking whether the planet now ...

What will the world look like in 2100? This question is central to a new free online game called FutureGuessr. Launched in ...

NASA has confirmed a small asteroid named 2025 PN7 is a quasi-moon of Earth. The space rock orbits the sun at a similar pace to Earth, making it appear to follow our planet. This quasi-moon is ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...