Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

Traveling from one star to another is currently impossible to achieve within a human lifetime. But some projects are ...

Nasa's Valkyrie robot was built by the Johnson Space Center to compete in a 2013 robotics challenge trial. Weighing 300lb and standing at 6ft2in, it looks not unlike a Star Wars Stormtrooper, but it ...

Humans absorb vitamin D from the Sun’s light ... Without light, these plants would not grow. Within the Solar System, on Earth, all living things really rely on sunlight for the creation ...

According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent ...

In those 60 years, we've gone much further, reaching new planets and even the edge of the solar system. Watch as the human race explores the galaxy around us. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More ...

Will the solar storm affect us on Earth? Fortunately, humans have nothing to worry about ... Among the possible consequences ...

The Solar System is ancient. To put it into perspective, if the age of the Solar System were a year, humans would appear on Earth just before the countdown on New Year’s Eve. This is an ...

“Every single time,” Brown says, “there’s this little charge of, ‘Oh my God, this little ice ball at the edge of the solar system has never before been seen by human eyes until this very ...