Humans love an origin story. And in space science, there is no greater question than why Earth is the vibrant, living planet we see today. As humans return to the heavens, understanding our planetary ...

Residents at Wheatlands care home took a virtual tour of the planets during a visit from the National Space Centre ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has been breaking distance records for decades. Launched almost 50 years ago, it became the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is helping astronomers study planetary collisions in other star systems like the type scientists believe formed the moon billions of years ago. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA ...

A review of Cloudy With A Chance of Starships by Seven Rasmussen and a Q&A in which the the author talks about the search for ...

The 14th test flight marks a crucial milestone toward the company’s ambitions of sending people to the moon and Mars, but it was not a complete success. By Kenneth Chang A previous mission left two ...

Astronomers say they have directly detected the first-ever radio emission from a planet outside the solar system. The signal, however, is evidence of a colossal magnetic field — not intelligent life. ...

TIME has unveiled its annual Best Inventions of 2026 list, highlighting products, technologies, and ideas that aim to make ...

In a remote corner of Australia’s Northern Territory, Bullo River Station is a working cattle ranch being reinvented as a ...

Approximately 63 light-years from Earth lies a planetary system so young that it's less than 1 percent as old as our solar system. It is called Beta Pictoris, and—as far as astronomers have ...

So far, astronomers have confirmed over 6,300 exoplanets circling a host star beyond our solar system. They range from small, rocky worlds to enormous orbs of gas like our own Jupiter or Saturn. Some, ...

Few technological artifacts have condensed, and symbolic reach of a civilization as profoundly as the Voyager 1 probe.