New research says that Earth could be ejected from our solar system if a passing star was to come close enough.

This explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked metal core. It could hold clues to how Earth began ...

The arrival of those photons—many from ancient stars and galaxies and which had been travelling across the universe for ...

Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

As the global population grows, we’ll have to find ways of feeding the planet without accelerating climate change.

These are the first public images collected by the Chile-based observatory, which will begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky later this year.

This isn’t just science fiction—there will come a time when life on Earth becomes impossible. Researchers have explored this topic, and their scenario doesn’t involve any of the dramatic disaster ...