Traveling from one star to another is currently impossible to achieve within a human lifetime. But some projects are designing ways to propel payloads to the nearest star system (Alpha Centauri) using ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

Astronomers measure a star’s brightness using the apparent magnitude system, where lower values indicate brighter stars.

NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

The black hole in question is 1ES 1927+654, located around 270 million light-years from Earth ... this dead star is performing an incredible balancing act. "This would be the closest thing ...

will make its close approach to Earth today. 2025 AB is a relatively smaller asteroid, just 42 feet in size, but at its closest, it will be just 95,200 miles away from the Earth. Its close ...

“It is among the closest Earth analogues we know about and given its peculiar orbit,” Cretignier said. An artist’s impression of the new planet HD 20794 d orbiting its star. Gabriel Pérez ...

Although more than 5,800 exoplanets that orbit around stars beyond ours have been identified, researchers say that planet HD 20794d's discovery is "among the closest Earth-analogues we know about." ...

Mars will make its closest approach to Earth this weekend while rising to ... it will still only appear as a star-like point of light with the naked eye. A pair of binoculars or a telescope ...

on a mission to help scientists learn more about Earth's closest star. The agency said the operations team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland received the signal ...