The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...

NASA and SpaceX delay astronaut recovery mission; Spanish fossils may reveal unknown human species, while astronomers ...

These gases — composed of carbon, hydrogen, and a halogen, like chlorine — are mostly made by bacteria, algae, fungi, and ...

Scientists are rethinking how to detect alien life by focusing on planets vastly different from Earth. Instead of searching ...

Considered a solitary star for its lack of stellar companions, Barnard's Star is notoriously lonely—signs of any exoplanets ...

Firefly Aerospace will launch its Alpha rocket for the sixth time ever on Saturday morning (March 15), and you can watch the ...

Primordial supernovae got the ball rolling a quick hundred million years or so after the start of the universe.

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...