Instead, perhaps beginning with the Terran Federation of Robert Heinlein ... first astronauts from Earth reach the Red Planet. It sort of looks like a gentler version of the more angular ...

"If we call Pluto a planet, there are others: Xena, Verona, Terran, Ceres — the list is ... It kind of sounds like I just lost my job," she said from Las Cruces, N.M. "But I understand science ...

More than half of these discoveries were made by NASA's Kepler space telescope, which launched in 2009 to determine how common Earth-like planets are throughout the Milky Way galaxy. The Kepler ...

In their hunt for potentially habitable planets around distant stars, scientists have been so focused on finding Earth-like planets that they're ignoring the possibility that other kinds of ...

A team of planet hunters estimates that about 22 percent of the sun-like stars in our galaxy may have planets about the size of Earth that are bathed in similar amounts of sunlight — and ...

Terran 1 did notch some important milestones on its first-ever launch, however. The world's first 3D-printed rocket didn't earn its wings during its launch debut late Wednesday (March 22), but it ...