Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today ...

While some scientists are using the James Webb Space Telescope, the leading observatory in the sky run by NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts, to study the planets' chemical compositions, ...

Researchers have developed a new method using the Allen Telescope Array to search for interplanetary radio communication in the TRAPPIST-1 star system.

The longest single-target search for radio signals from TRAPPIST-1 — a star system with seven planets just 41 light-years ...

A new breakthrough in the study of meteorites has revealed that over 70% of meteorites that strike Earth come from just three ...

Starman Brian Cox talks about travel to Mars, science and failed experiments and how his latest series is informed by ...

A steam-shrouded planet unlike any we’ve seen before has been detected nearly 100 light years away. The planet, known as GJ ...

A massive asteroid, roughly the size of a stadium pitch, will pass by Earth on October 17. Named 2024 RV50, the asteroid is ...

These extremely low density cotton candy exoplanets—known as super-puffs —are a big puzzle for astronomers trying to figure ...

One of the key components for the evolution of life as we know it is the presence of “volatiles”: elements and compounds that ...

An explosion of particles arrived at Earth on Thursday, and could lead to visible northern lights in much of the country ...

Ice on ancient asteroids like Ryugu may have been crucial in kickstarting life on Earth. Researchers from Imperial and ...