The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate edged up for the second week in a row, but remains just above its lowest level in ...

“This is the first planet candidate with Earth-like radius and orbital properties transiting a Sun-like star bright enough ...

A faint signal was initially detected by a team of citizen scientists — including the study’s first author, Alexander Venner, ...

Scientists have long relied on tree rings to learn about ancient solar storms—rare bursts of high-energy particles from the ...

According to an analysis published by the astrology and relationship-focused website YourTango, life is set to improve ...

Trees are falling, eco-systems are collapsing, and our infrastructure is crumbling. Crops are failing, and water is scarce. Earth is becoming a dead planet. On the plus side, there's never been a ...

Dubbed HD 137010 b, the planet might fall just within the outer edges of its star's 'habitable zone', meaning there could be ...

A nebula is a distinct luminescent part of the interstellar environment, and as far as these features go, the Helix Nebula is ...

A star like our Sun lost a large part of its brightness for nearly nine months. This unusual behavior immediately caught the ...

Australian researchers have made an astonishing discovery of a potentially habitable planet 150 light years away - but there ...

A unique characteristic of the candidate planet HD 137010b is its ice-cold temperature.

This rare alignment unfolds low in the western sky during twilight, 30-45 minutes after sunset, where the brilliant white glow of Venus meets the subtler orange-white shimmer of Mercury.