It started as another exoplanet in a group labeled “ordinary.” No one expected that a world, once thought to be a mini-Neptune, would reveal traits of a super-Venus and change how we see certain ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. This planet, five times larger than Earth, has extreme temperatures reaching 2,400°C and ...

told The Associated Press some people colloquially refer to the type of conjunction happening this weekend as a "Venus kiss," because of the planet's relatively close proximity to the Earth.

Two American astronauts who've been stuck in space since last year are finally back on planet Earth. The SpaceX capsule carrying Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, along with fellow NASA astronaut ...

After Apple Inc. recently delayed advanced Siri features, analysts mused that the new timeline could have some impact on iPhone sales. After all, customers may hold out on upgrades until the new ...

The Blue Ghost spacecraft from Firefly Aerospace, currently at home in the moon’s Mars Crisium basin, got the opposite view from us here on the planet as the Earth appeared to pass in front of ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 million to 230 million years ago in the Triassic Period, and went ...

Scientists have identified a refuge in China where it seems that plants weathered the planet's worst die-off. The end-Permian mass extinction, also known as the "Great Dying," took place 251.9 ...

Unveiled today at the Eiffel Tower, American street artist and environmental activist Shepard ‘OBEY’ Fairey’s Earth Crisis artwork ushers in ... and cautionary images representing threats to the ...

But Barnard’s Star is different — it’s a common type of cool, low-mass planet called a red dwarf ... at just 20 to 30% of the mass of Earth, and orbit extremely close to the star so that ...