K2-18b, which has eight times the mass of Earth, just might be covered with a massive ocean and blanketed by an atmosphere ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this ...

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of ...

After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is ...

With the most advanced craft available at the moment, the time needed to reach this planet will be 194,000 years ...

Near a planet far, far away astronomers have found traces of chemicals that on Earth are only produced by living beings.

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies these rocky, or "terrestrial," worlds are far more common than was ...

NASA is releasing stunning photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope to celebrate its 35th anniversary. Check them out below ...