Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured this stunning long-exposure view of Earth and stars from space at night from the ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

When young, aspiring astronauts dream about shooting off into space in a rocket ship, their minds rarely wander to worst case ...

Nine months after being stranded aboard the International Space Station, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally back ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are finally back on Earth after spending more than nine months in orbit on ...

NASA’s AWE mission just released millions of gravity wave images from space, unveiling atmospheric forces that ripple through ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. This planet, five ...

Satellite images taken more than three decades apart show the disappearance of Iceland's Okjökull, the first glacier to be ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...