For all our technological progress, humanity remains confined to a single planet. But that may not always be the case. Over ...

Earth is the only life-supporting planet in our Solar System. Until now. Today, we’re bringing Kepler 22-b into our planetary ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

Astronomers have just confirmed for the first time the existence of a "rogue planet"—a world drifting in space without being ...

The US and China both want to be the first to launch a powerful AI data center beyond Earth, but the latter has seemingly ...

Astronomers have identified a free-floating planet in the Milky Way. This discovery provides direct observational evidence of a low-mass, unbound planetary body.

Their analysis showed that the planet lies about 3,000 parsecs, or just under 10,000 light-years, from Earth. Its mass is ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

When scientists describe “Earth-like” planets, the phrase often brings to mind worlds scattered across the galaxy, quietly ...

"Year of the Moon," marking the transition from robotic scouting to the return of human presence in deep space.

Will Smith has revealed new details about his upcoming pole-to-pole documentary, a seven-episode series filmed over the past ...