Astronomers have identified GJ 3378b, a super-Earth located 25 light-years away, in the habitable zone of its star, raising ...

As Chris Packham gears up for his new TV show, Evolution, he tells Penny Sarchet why understanding the latest evolutionary ...

Project Hail Mary, Solaris, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are all among the very best sci-fi books set in space.

It's called 469219 Kamo'oalewa, Hawaiian for 'wobbling celestial object'.

Spaceflight has carried everything from satellites and scientific instruments to memorial capsules and plant seeds beyond ...

This is the first image of a rare 'minimoon' that loops around the Earth like a dance partner.

In the ocean's twilight zone, where the reach of the Sun fades to nothing, an epic migration begins every time night falls.

Despite being called a "minimoon", Kamo'oalewa is not Earth's second moon. It is a rare type of asteroid known as a ...

Here's your chance to live like an astronaut as NASA seeks volunteers to live in a habitat for a year simulating future moon ...

During last year’s brief visit from the comet 3I/ATLAS, astronomers got an extremely rare glimpse into the cosmos beyond our ...

A new study suggests that when our star becomes unstable in 5 billion years or so, Earth may avoid being engulfed by its ...