An international team of scientists has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth—a planet larger than Earth but smaller than ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet just twenty light years away that's residing in its star's habitable zone.

YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

Letters uncovered from Sir Isaac Newton in 1704 could hold the key to what the future of civilisation might look like. The ...

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

It’s fun to conceptualise like this, and set the human story within the grand perspective of Earth’s history. But there’s a ...