A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

A British propulsion company is aiming to harness nuclear fusion and drastically cut travel times to far off places in space.

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our nearest solitary stellar neighbor ...

Venus may be far more geologically alive than anyone expected. New research suggests its outer crust could be churning with ...

If the Moon were to suddenly vanish from the solar system, our home planet would suffer devastating consequences ...

Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to ...

The near-Earth asteroid 2025 BC10 will pass safely near our planet on Saturday (April 5). The Virtual Telescope Project will ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

The quartet of planets — named b, c, d and e — are some of the smallest rocky worlds ever detected. NASA says each has a mass ...

Planets' temperatures are largely influenced by their structural characteristics and proximity to the Sun, however, Venus ...

Scientists have just discovered four small, rocky exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star to our solar system after the Alpha Centauri system, NASA announced. Located only six ...

Two planets outside the solar system have been identified orbiting a star located nearly 250 light-years away from Earth in ...