Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.

Comet C/2023 P1, Nishimura visible from Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Space.com Newsom calls special session to ...

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...

Proba-3 is such an ambitious mission that it needs more than one single spacecraft to succeed. In order for Proba-3's ...

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Looking up and around during the day, it's easy to understand why the ancients believed that we live under a great dome of sky.

Growing up in Long Beach, California, his parents adhered to a creationist view of the universe. But young Koerner caught ...

Parker is now on course to reach the final objective of a historic mission conceived over 65 years ago: flying within 3.8 ...

The probe will orbit the sun "close enough to pass inside a solar eruption, like a surfer diving under a crashing ocean wave, ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system 's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...