To be a planet, NASA says an object must be big enough that its gravity has cleared away any other objects of a similar size near its orbit around the Sun. I can understand how something can clear ...

"Make Pluto a planet again," NASA administrator Jared Issaacman said in a Senate hearing last Tuesday. And lo, the Internet did rejoice. Two decades on from its original declassification as a ...

TESS has released its most complete view of the sky over Earth, revealing the location of 6,000 potential worlds beyond the ...

It's been 20 years since Pluto lost its status as the ninth planet of the solar system, but we still can't seem to let it go. Reading time 3 minutes Pluto remains one of the great generational divides ...

The live event will take audiences on an extraordinary journey through a century of exploration and discovery in the natural world, seen through the prism of David’s remarkable life and work To mark ...

The billionaire media mogul spent much of his time - and even more of his riches - trying to "take pollution down to zero." ...

Epsilon Indi Ab was first discovered in 2002 and was officially confirmed to exist in 2018. It is considered an exoplanet, which NASA defines as any planet outside our own solar system and orbits a ...

Many of us are old enough to have grown up with the idea of nine planets orbiting the Sun. In 2006, however, a controversial decision in the astronomy community resulted in the official list being cut ...

To mark Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday, Kirsty Young presents a ninety minute special event honouring one of the most influential figures in broadcasting and natural history storytelling.

For decades, scientists and the general public have argued over the astronomical status of beloved dwarf planet Pluto. In the latest salvo, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said that he was “very ...

Full spoilers follow for For All Mankind Season 5, Episode 8, which is streaming on Apple TV now. It’s kind of late in the ...