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.

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.

Gene Roddenberry's idea for Earth: Final Conflict took 21 years to come to fruition, and when it did, it seemed a bit too ...

CHINA has unveiled plans to build a Star Wars-style warship capable of deploying unmanned fighter jets and firing missiles ...

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow shock" as it zooms through the Milky Way. The cosmic zombie is also ripping ...

One of the brightest stars in the night sky will vanish as seen from North America and Europe in a rare event.

Skywatchers across parts of North America are getting front-row seats to a lunar occultation, where Luna makes one of the ...

A rare lunar occultation will occur on Feb. 2 when the moon passes directly in front of bright star Regulus as seen from a ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...

Adding to the sky show is Regulus, one of the brightest stars visible from Earth, and a beacon steeped in myth and prestige ...