An international team led by the Universities of Geneva (UNIGE) and Montreal published the first results today from the NIRPS ...

Voyager 1, launched in 1977 and traveling for nearly 50 years, has not yet traveled the distance light covers in one day.

Senior Scientist for Astrobiology Strategy at NASA David Dr. Grinspoon joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions ...

Astronomers have made an exciting discovery—a new Earth-like exoplanet, Proxima b, located in the Alpha Centauri system. This ...

Proxima Centauri, just 4.24 light-years from Earth, is the closest known star to our Sun. Though it’s the smallest member of ...

Answer 17: A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in space. A meteor is the streak of light produced when a meteoroid enters Earth’s atmosphere. A meteorite is a meteoroid that survives passage ...

The hunt for potentially habitable rocky planets in our galaxy has been the holy grail of exoplanet studies for decades.

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own ...