In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

This year NASA unveiled new discoveries beyond our solar system, the count has surpassed 6,000, with several thousands more ...

With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

When astronomers first cataloged some of the closest orbiting rocky exoplanets, they wrote them off as bare, airless cinders, ...

On this list, you'll find some weird incidents on Earth, a bit of Russian space drama and, of course, that little ...

In Pirates of the Caribbean, Jack and Will use an overturned dinghy to hold air underwater. Madness or brilliance?

An ancient rocky world so close to its star that its surface is largely molten should have been stripped bare of gas long ago ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

The University of Arizona's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft only made it home once in 2025, but at least it got some nice snapshots ...

Surprised astronomers just discovered a world that blurs the line between planet and stellar remnant, hiding in a system ...

January’s long nights, howling winds and unending drizzle that constitute a British winter all seem to scream: stay indoors, ...