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This image of Mars shows what it might be like to stand on the Red Planet and look across into the distance. But it also ...

See the Harvest Moon rise on 26 September 2026 and catch the full Moon close to the planet Saturn in the evening sky.

Radio signals have been detected coming from a planet beyond our Solar System, giving astronomers insight into exoplanets' magnetic fields.

This timelapse video captured by a satellite and released by NASA shows lava spreading out from Russia’s Krasheninnikov ...

Key facts and stargazing advice on the 2026 Harvest Moon – where its name comes from and how to see it and Saturn in the night sky together.

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus would theoretically be able to host some forms of microbial life, according to a scientific study.

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Science has strengthened theories that the ingredients for life could have been brought to Earth by comets impacting into our home planet.