The exoplanet is gravitationally gripped in a speedy, 11-hour orbit around a red dwarf star that's less than one-fifth the ...

Despite acing a flight test of its newest Starship capsule, SpaceX has to speed through an obstacle course of tech hurdles to ...

A small group of scientists have long suggested that the seeds of life may have been distributed across the vast distances of ...

After two years of preparation, dive partners Bill Gavin and Parker Turner thought they had meticulously planned every last ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet K2-18b has revealed the "strongest hints yet of biological activity ...

Interstellar space is unforgivingly vast, but the emptiness has some advantages. The lack of atmosphere means there is no aerodynamic drag. So when the ship reaches its cruise spe ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered a triply-eclipsing star system. The ...

A new study suggests Mars could help scientists understand how alien worlds evolve by showing how a once warmer, wetter ...

Intro After writing two Io articles I return to Io  again my favourite moon, looking at one single lava flow field. But read Alberts and my two other Io posts first. Jupiter’s moon Io ...

An Introduction The Fermi paradox presents a perplexing contradiction that intrigues scientists, philosophers, and the general public alike. Despite the vastness of the universe, the high probability ...

After dominating theaters since its March 20 release, even earning an extended theatrical window and a return to IMAX screens ...

Far in the distant future, long after the human race has spread itself among the stars and rebuilt itself after being nearly ...