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.

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

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Lake Effect astronomy contributor Jean Creighton shares some myths behind some of our solar system’s most famous moons and ...

Few authors have had as big an impact on space journalism as Jeffrey Kluger. His 1994 book Lost Moon, co-authored with Astronaut James Lovell, was the basis for the 1995 film Apollo 13, which starred ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

July is a special month, as it is part of the summer, the Independence Day of the United States (4) is celebrated, and also the meeting of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, considere ...

Wolves, strawberries and sturgeon may not seem connected at first glance, but each one represents a specific full moon tied ...

A day on Earth is defined as the time the planet takes to complete one full rotation on its axis – roughly 86,400 seconds, or ...

As Earth spins faster than it has in decades, atomic clocks are catching the difference, and shorter days are on the horizon.