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 ...

T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), also known as the Blaze Star, is a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth. It ...

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

New findings from the ALMA telescope have revealed that planets are born in much smaller protoplanetary disks than ...

Stunning imagery from outer space shows the power of the Sun, with a massive solar flare and coronal mass ejection erupting from the giant star’s surface, but space experts say there is no need to ...

The explosion released elements heavier than iron—like gold and platinum—through a process known as rapid neutron capture ...

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

WASHINGTON >> NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule today with a soft ...

A mysterious and powerful burst of radio waves reached Earth after traveling through space for 8 billion years dubbed FRB ...

After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement orbit" around the Sun on Thursday, the European Space Agency said.