When exploring outer space, the sharpness of our vision has always been limited by Earth’s atmosphere and the physical size of our telescopes. But astronomers shattered these limitations in 2024 by ...

The exoplanet, discovered in 2009, remained elusive due to dense clouds. Now, scientists have peered through with the James ...

That's encouraging, but as for its newly confirmed planet, a few details remain a bit dicey. HD 20794 d's orbit is elliptical, not circular like Earth's, so the distance it keeps from its star changes ...

YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

REx mission has an historic opportunity to closely observe the asteroid Apophis and improve our ability to defend against ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

Five years ago, NASA provided an updated version of the Pale Blue Dot. JPL engineer Kevin M Gill reprocessed the image with modern tools but following the original approach, even receiving inputs from ...