Proxima Centauri b, a rocky world with a minimum mass of approximately 1.3 Earth masses, orbits the closest star to the Sun ...

Before any major telescope commissioning, there are dozens of papers that attempt to define what we can expect from it. We're ...

In a landmark achievement, astronomers have identified a super-Earth exoplanet only 18 light-years away that meets all the criteria they’ve been seeking for the past 20 years in their quest for ...

Barnard’s Star has four small rocky planets packed extremely close to the star. Their atmospheres probably disappeared ...

R L Drake explores the Fermi Paradox: why, given the Milky Way's billions of potentially habitable planets and the Drake Equation's estimate of 12,500 possible ...

The moon is about 384,400 kilometres from Earth right now and our days are about 24 hours long. The moon pulls on Earth’s ...

Finding out about distant worlds and their potential for life is clearly on a lot of astronomers’ minds. The other thread we ...

The Chronicles of Narnia, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, and more make up our list of fantasy franchises better than ...