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Artist's impression of ancient Earth. (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Francis Reddy) The greatest challenge facing astrobiologists i...

A Bizarre New System in Space Astronomers have uncovered one of the strangest planetary systems ever seen. Nicknamed 2M1510, this system app...

Our solar system includes the Sun, eight planets, five officially named dwarf planets , hundreds of moons, and thousands of asteroids and co...

Possible alien world bubbling over with volcanoes detected deep in space It’s thought that there is at least one planet for every star in th...

The nearest single star to the Solar System has just yielded up a rare and wonderful treasure. Around a red dwarf known as Barnard's sta...

Measurements of the distance to extragalactic sources allow us to infer the major energy constituents of our Universe. Two decades ago such ...

Astronomers may have detected a dozen large objects lurking beyond the Kuiper Belt at the edge of our solar system, suggesting there could b...

Earth may have formed much more rapidly than previously believed after born as tiny millimeter-sized pebbles that accumulated over a period ...

This might be a little out there. Alien-hunting Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb is back again, armed with new, not-yet-peer-reviewed research. T...

Astronomers now routinely discover planets orbiting stars outside of the solar system – they’re called exoplanets. But in summer 2022, team...

Evolution of the Sun during its main sequence lifetime. Each curve shows one of the Sun’s characteristics compared with the current Sun. The...

A shift in Jupiter's orbit could make Earth's surface even more hospitable to life than it already is, new research suggests. Univer...

The sun-observing Solar Orbiter spacecraft makes regular flybys at Venus, taking measurements  of the planet's magnetic field as a side ...

NASA’S VOYAGER 1 is on a fraught and unknowable journey into deep space. Some 14.6 billion miles from Earth, it and its sister craft, Voyage...

In 1687, Sir Isaac Newton published his magnum opus, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica , which effectively synthesized his theori...

Richard Dinan is the visionary entrepreneur who wants to help humans leave Earth and inhabit other planets in the Milky Way. And he wants to...

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway and Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty In 1961, U.S. President John F. Kennedy declared that his ...

The proposed giant tunnel is hundred of light years wide, making it big enough to encompass Earth, our solar system, and even nearby stars. ...

  Prove It... I was raised Methodist, attended Episcopal and Baptist for a while but then decided that my faith was more spiritual than inst...

THE EIGHT PLANETS of our Solar System aren’t the only ones we’ve ever had — they’re merely the survivors. But that doesn’t mean the other p...