Many planets featured in Star Trek TNG share traits that scientists now look for when identifying exoplanets: rocky terrain, ...

The newly discovered world is called GJ 251c and it is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away.

The exoplanet, dubbed GJ 251 c, is at least four times larger than our own planet and is likely to be a rocky world located ...

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

Good thing it didn’t take too much longer, however—for in around 5 billion years’ time, the sun will start to run out of fuel ...

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K., from where he covers everything science and health ...

Gravitational Waves: Ripples in spacetime caused by massive objects moving, though these are incredibly hard to detect from distant binary black holes. Orbital Motion: Observing how the black holes ...

P. Jenniskens, SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center; and M. Breukers and C. Johannink, Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance (CAMS), BeNeLux, report that the ...