In April, astronomers said they had detected a possible signature of life on the exoplanet K2-18b. Now, three independent ...

Wildlife rangers are being killed at a rate of nearly two a week, and it’s a toll Prince William has said the world can no longer ignore. This is the reality laid bare in “Guardians,” a new six-part d ...

A new device uses quantum optics to filter out starlight in real time — bringing scientists closer to directly observing ...

Mars doesn’t have magnetic poles like Earth does, but that doesn’t stop the red planet from experiencing the night sky ...

NASA’s astrobiology ambitions are at risk of collapsing under the White House’s proposed budget. But your voice can make a ...

A strong solar flare erupted from the sun's surface, impacting radio transmissions on Earth's sunlit side on Tuesday.

The BBC's Sky at Night Magazine reports that, should we ever get to stargaze on Mars, we'd see two moons - Phobos and Deimos - instead of just one. We wouldn't see as many satellites either, making it ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets ... space passes in front of another one. What we see is a 'dimming' of the light from the ...

Astronomers are nearing a statistically significant finding that could confirm the potential signs of life detected on the distant exoplanet K2-18b are no ... background on K2-18b and similar planets.

A recent study published using data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope ... signatures difficult in a planet orbiting a red dwarf, however, is that the background from the star itself ...

Space exploration missions have ... about 243 Earth days), and because Venus has almost no tilt on its axis, so there are no seasons on the planet. The lack of seasons enables the vortices to ...

However, no ... in space-time, which is felt as gravity. At its simplest, it can be thought of as a giant rubber sheet with a bowling ball in the centre. As the ball warps the sheet, a planet ...