The presence of apparent biological signatures on Venus has left UK-based researchers chasing down bacterial life in the ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

KEY POINTSNASA's Parker Solar Probe has taken the closest ever images to the Sun, captured just 3.8 million miles from the ...

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.

Mars has lost immense amounts of water over it lifetime, and scientists aren't sure exactly how. New research hints that the ...

James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, ...

For those seeking comfort food with a twist, the “Honey Stung Chicken & Waffle Basket” pairs crispy chicken tenders with maple-flavored waffle fries and a kick of Nashville hot sauce – a ...

A sudden burst of red light flickered above a thunderstorm, and for a brief moment, Earth’s upper atmosphere revealed one of its most elusive secrets.

The Department of Defense's announcement that it would end a weather-data sharing program surprised some climate watchdogs ...

A new paper from Maximilien Berthet and Kojiro Suzuki from the University of Tokyo looks at “the dynamics of an origami space plane during Earth atmospheric reentry” – in other words, what happens ...

Recreating artificial solar eclipses in space could help astronomers decipher the inner workings of our sun much quicker than ...