With current rocket propulsion technology, it would take tens or hundreds of millennia to reach our neighboring star system, ...

Exoplanets are worlds outside our solar system. Just over three decades ago, the first exoplanets were confirmed by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. Now, with the aid of Nasa spacecraft and ...

TRAPPIST-1, a planetary system 40 light years from Earth, could host a planet with an atmosphere and liquid water, but astronomers can’t be certain just yet.

In 2016 billionaire Yuri Milner hosted a press conference at One World Observatory, the atrium topping the slick skyscraper ...

Sankofa Chicago is the first in a three-part docuseries exploring the meaning of Sankofa—knowing our past to understand the present. Through personal stories and expert interviews, it highlights how ...