"Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first ...

When we first saw it happening, we were frankly in disbelief,” Dr Sushanta Mitra said. “We double-checked everything because ...

Somehow, we’ll need to get the limited land on our hot and hungry planet to produce much more food to sustain us and absorb ...

Both the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies (M31) are part of what's known as the Local Group (LG), which also hosts other ...

Astronomers have believed for decades that the Milky Way is on a collision course with our nearest big neighbor, Andromeda.

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...

The hunt for habitable worlds has become a hot topic in astronomy. For decades, the search has been focused on planets in the ...

Billions of years from now, the Sun will swell into a red giant, swallowing Mercury, Venus, and Earth. But that’s not the ...

The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar ...

Perhaps this is yet another example of children possessing a wisdom that they lose as they grow into adulthood: We belong ...

Fresh off of the news that Helldivers 2 is getting some fresh content in May, April's closed with the Illuminate's planet-eating death ball ... Earth with just over five days left on the order. So ...

So how do we abstract far enough away from life on Earth that we’d be able to notice life elsewhere even if it had different chemical specifics, but not so far that we’d be including all kinds of self ...