Some of the best open-world games like Starfield, Knights of the Old Republic, and No Man's Sky take place in space.

For fans of spacefaring in video games, the many explorable planets in these open-world titles are likely to impress.

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new rogue planet that was orphaned from its home planetary ...

Another (and, in our view, more important) source of energy for life on Iceheim is the heat coming from its core, underneath ...

NASA has confirmed the discovery of an Earth-sized planet parked right in the “habitable zone” of a distant red dwarf star. Called TOI 700 e (which honestly sounds like something Elon Musk would name ...

Berlin-based designer Johanna Wichelhaus of MOONARIJ and Swiss artist Kaspar Müller unveil Space Jars, a limited collection ...

New observations are the first direct evidence of planets influencing their stars rather than just passively orbiting them ...

A Tatooine-like world with a key difference from the desert planet in "Star Wars" has been serendipitously discovered orbiting not two stars, but a pair of brown dwarfs.

One of the highest yields of extra-solar planet data has come from NASA’s Kepler space observatory. Launched in 2009, Kepler continuously monitored about 100,000 nearby stars for almost five ...

Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes. But astronomers recently spotted a mysteriously circular orb deep in the Milky Way galaxy — and it's certainly none of these things.

Galaxy gazers can observe the event by looking up into dark skies around 45 minutes past sunset. The sun dips down in Boston just before 5:30 p.m. Friday.

Starfield serves players a galaxy filled with numerous stories to unravel. As Bethesda’s first new IP in decades, it carries the studio’s trademark open-world storytelling into the far reaches ...