There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That line, attributed to Richard ...

Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to our own, sits 4.37 light-years away. At the speed Voyager 1 travels, reaching it ...

Scientists identify 45 potentially habitable exoplanets, using exact data and quotes to guide future telescopes in the search ...

An ostensibly simple question — which Star Trek ship is the fastest? — has a surprisingly complex answer, but there is one clear winner.

The late April twilight affords the continued opportunity to marvel at the planet Venus, as the ‘evening star’ blazes away in the western ...

Could light-powered spacecraft be humanity's saviour?

Scientists just identified the one creature tough enough to outlive every other animal on Earth. It's not the cockroach and ...

One thing that seems certain to unite the world's people beyond language barriers, political differences, is space ...

New research suggests that middle-aged stars like the Sun may offer the most stable environments for complex life to emerge.

Dan Price, a NASA solar system ambassador and volunteer naturalist at Bernheim Forest and Arboretum, discusses how dark skies ...

Gliese 581c is a planet that’s about 20 light-years away, hanging out in the constellation Libra. It circles its star pretty ...

A team of researchers from Texas A&M University has demonstrated the use of laser beams to lift and steer tiny engineered ...