Astronomers have identified a potentially habitable exoplanet just 25 light-years away, raising hopes that one of Earth's ...

Every June 30th, Asteroid Day marks the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska impact and turns global attention to the science of ...

The latest discovery of nucleotides on an asteroid is making scientists rethink the story of how life got going ...

The image, released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), shows asteroid Torifune, a roughly 450-metre-wide space ...

A rare meteorite has revealed evidence of a massive lost world that once orbited the young Sun before being destroyed in a catastrophic collision. The discovery suggests some early planets formed from ...

While life on Mars (and Venus) has long been an obsession for those wondering if we're alone, there are other places in our ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida Tech graduate, she leaves with not only a dual degree in planetary science ...

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the ...

Space looks empty until you try to cross it. Far beyond Pluto, where sunlight is faint and the planets are long behind, ...

A multidisciplinary team from the California Institute of Technology is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for testing a satellite that proves it’s possible to collect solar energy in space and ...

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...