The Star Wars franchise famously takes place in a galaxy far, far away, but does Earth factor into things? We have an answer thanks to a pretty unlikely source.

It takes a certain kind of brave (and perhaps foolish) person to join Starfleet and venture into the great unknown, and most of the stories in the Star Trek universe are about an adventure gone wrong.

Planets are about as scarce as they can be in our summer evening sky. Earth is the only one that’s visible as darkness falls. Just look down instead of up. All of the major planets that are visible to ...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson joins Natasha Verma to unlock big cosmic questions with wit and clarity: Have aliens ...

The night sky may look calm, but behind the glowing points of light lies a violent and complex process of creation. Stars, ...

A stellar nursery in the Small Magellanic Cloud — a tiny galaxy that orbits our Milky Way — is surprisingly dusty. All rocky planets start as dust grains floating in space. That means the amount of ...

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A recently released study suggested that our universe started with two big bangs not just one. For decades scientists have been struggling to explain the creation of two things: ...

Kepler-452b is one of the most Earth-like planets ever discovered, orbiting a star much like our Sun. Located over 1,400 ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...