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.

British writer Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for fiction with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard ...

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

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, offering a glimpse into our ...

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

The European Southern Observatory captured a Halloween-themed image of the Dark Wolf Nebula, a hauntingly dense cloud of ...

These “miniature trails of destruction,” as the researchers call them, are caused by high-energy particles bouncing off the nucleus inside a rock, which knocks that nucleus out of place. The resulting ...

A father-daughter duo has decoded an alien-like signal beamed from a spacecraft in 2023. Now, citizen scientists are trying to interpret the cosmic puzzle.

Cut off from the world and mired in a deadly conflict, Myanmar is suffering from a forgotten war. But the ABC embedded with ...

The signal, transmitted in May 2023 from the European Space Agency's (ESA) ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), was part of an innovative art project called "A Sign in Space," led by media artist Daniela ...

An astrophotographer has immortalized SpaceX's Starship flight test 5 by renting a $17,000 lens –and it was totally worth it ...