The transit method involves using an observatory like Kepler to 'stare' at a star and wait for its light to dim as a ...

Astronomers have discovered Kepler-452b, the most Earth-like exoplanet yet found, orbiting a star strikingly similar to our Sun. This video explains why it’s such a breakthrough, how the Kepler ...

But unlike Jupiter, Venus does have phases, going from not illuminated at all (when it is between the Earth and the Sun) to ...

A cancer treatment has been reformulated into a simple injection after its key components behaved differently in ...

NASA explains that auroras form when charged particles from the Sun collide with gases in Earth’s atmosphere, guided by the ...

Aging stars can completely destroy their planets. When a star reaches the end of its life on the main sequence, it goes ...

The days are slowly growing longer. When is daylight saving time? When does spring start in 2026? Here's what we know.

A G1 or G2-class geomagnetic storm is possible on Wednesday, Feb. 4, as a coronal mass ejection from a powerful X8-class solar flare struck Earth's magnetic field.

Tech firms are floating the idea of building data centers in space and tapping into the sun's energy to meet out-of-this-world power demands in a fierce artificial intelligence race.

The Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, when hearing about the invention of the telescope in 1608, decided to make his own ...

NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...

A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.