NEW YORK (AP) — Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what’s called an inferior conjunction. But don’t ...

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured this stunning long-exposure view of Earth and stars from space at night from the ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged four planets orbiting the host star HR 8799 about 130 light-years ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

When a mudflat crumbles on Earth, or an ice sheet splinters on one of Jupiter's moons (Europa), or an ancient lakebed breaks ...

This celestial body, known as PSR J1719-1438b, is five times larger than Earth. But that is not the only glittering world in space. Another planet, 55 Cancri e, also appears to be rich in diamonds.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. This planet, five ...

“If you look at Earth from space, you see things differently,” says Black, the founder of the London-based company. “I’m driven by this idea that there’s eight billion people on the ...