Space News

When introducing his book “About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang,” author Adam Frank tells us that he is setting out to “unfold the grandest conception of the universe we hum...

The European Space Agency (ESA) was founded by 10 European states back in 1975 with the idea that “We can do more, together.” Today Europe’s gateway to space is a cooperative, intergovernmental organis...

The star HD 40307 is thought to host at least 6 exoplanet candidates… one of them well within its habitable zone. (G. Anglada/Celestia) Located 43 light-years away in the southern constellation Pictor, the orange-c...

Screenshot from the Uwingu exoplanet naming website. Astronomers have now discovered over 1,000 planets orbiting other stars, and right now these exoplanets all have boring, license-plate-like names, such as HD85512 and ...