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 ...

Nearly 50 years after launch, Voyager 1 continues to rewrite humanity’s understanding of space — and in 2026, it will mark ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC (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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ammonite belongs to an ultra rare family of bodies called sednoids. Only four are known so far: Sedna, 2012 VP113, Leleākūhonua, and now Ammonite. All of them travel on elongated orbits that never ...