New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar ...

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the ...

In approximately 4.5 billion years, as the sun transforms into a red giant and engulfs Earth, Jupiter's moon Europa may offer ...

The curious minds at What If explore the catastrophic aftermath of pouring Earth's oceans into the Sun.

Astronomers have revealed that our Milky Way galaxy has a 50/50 chance of colliding with its massive neighbor, the Andromeda ...

NASA astrophysics Dr Alex Young has recently spoken about whether the Sun will "ever burn out". In a video uploaded by the space agency, he said: "Well, the Sun, just like the stars we see at night, ...

"We do not currently have a consensus whether Earth could avoid being engulfed by the red giant sun in 6 billion years ... at which point Earth’s oceans would be vaporized by runaway greenhouse ...

that increased heat is expected to strip away Earth's atmosphere and boil the oceans, rendering the planet uninhabitable. In about 5 billion years, the sun will expand into a red giant—very ...

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star.

New data show a 50% chance the Milky Way won't collide with Andromeda. A merger with the Large Magellanic Cloud is far more ...