final frontier

The Hubble Space Telescope has helped scientists determine the color of a planet outside of our Solar System for the first time.

A new study finds there could be about 60 billion Earth-sized habitable planets orbitingred dwarfs – the most common stars in our universe

A Russian rocket carrying three navigation system satellites fell shortly after lift-off at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July

Astronomers have discovered three new planets orbiting in the habitable zone around the star Gliese 667C. The habitable zone is

South Africa is preparing to host the biggest radio telescope in the world. Along with Australia, the country has been

Scientists have long wondered why the surface temperatures on Mars rise and fall twice a day instead of once each

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has discovered what appears to be the lightest planet ever to be directly observed outside