For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

As astronomers study an exoplanet called K2-18b, conflicting research reveals how difficult it is to find evidence of life ...

Albedo II by Catherine Eaton Skinner/Courtesy photo Eastern Poplar by Catherine Eaton Skinner/Courtesy photoSTEP UP GALLERY ...

It’s rare to see a tagline so perfectly summarize the heart of a show like, “We were safer in space.” FX’s sci-fi horror ...

Astronomers have found a rare form of methanol, a type of alcohol, in a planet-forming disk, providing a critical step in understanding how life beyond Earth may form. This result reveals vital ...

A Super-Earth named Kepler-725c has been discovered in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star, 2,400 light-years away.

But new research from the University of Chicago is urging caution. After analyzing data from multiple observations of the ...

to image and examine dozens of notionally Earth-like planets for the global exhalations of alien biospheres. Taken together, these recent developments mean we could be at the doorstep of the next ...

“The talk show is Ambien,” the WFAN “Boomer & Gio” host said Thursday. “Any clip that I see, it feels like they’re doing a remote from a funeral home. It could not be more boring.

Weighing just 400 pounds, the satellite will enter low Earth orbit at about 400 kilometers (roughly 250 miles) above the planet ... in large part to innovations like SpaceX’s reusable rockets.

Was Mars a friendly planet for water ... has a lower gravity than Earth and less ability to hold on to atmospheric compounds like carbon dioxide. Steckel emphasized that even accepting the ...

Michael Ackerson We know Earth is old. Scientists estimate that our planet formed around 4.5 billion years ago. But how old is it exactly? And what was it like when our planet was still forming?