WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a glimpse of what may be in store for Earth billions of years from now - showing it is ...

A spacecraft en route to the frozen moons of Jupiter has taken a very close look at Earth, and found that our homeworld is, in fact, habitable. Of course, we know that life is crawling around on Earth ...

Scientists warn a strange iron bar in a distant nebula could reveal Earth's fate when the Sun dies, offering a grim look at ...

EU researchers are developing powerful new telescopes to help uncover Earth-like planets around distant stars and advance the search for extraterrestrial life. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DALLAS (AP) — NASA’s Voyager 1, the most ...

A new study has uncovered a connection between solar flares—sudden outbursts of radiation from stars—and short-term weather patterns on distant Earth-like planets. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Robotic Martians can see blue Earth in Mars' sky. The Curiosity rover, a car-sized NASA robot looking to find evidence of past habitability on the Red Planet, recently snapped an image of Mars' ...

Since the early 1990s astronomers have discovered more than 300 planets orbiting stars other than our Sun, nearly all of them gas giants like Jupiter. Powerful space telescopes, such as the one that ...