New research reveals that Earth’s so-called “Boring Billion” was a time of dramatic change beneath the surface.

For more than half a billion years, a giant magnetic anomaly buried in Earth’s ancient rocks has puzzled scientists. The ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a nearby super Earth that could potentially support alien life — drawing comparisons to theories surrounding Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS, which some ...

The Ingenuity helicopter from the Mars 2020 mission far exceeded its original mission of simply demonstrating controlled ...

One aspect that worked so well about Farscape is that across four seasons of eighty-eight episodes, the show amazingly melded the stakes of an epic space opera with an episodic sci-fi series. The plot ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

New experiments show young rocky planets can generate water naturally when molten surfaces react with hydrogen in their early atmospheres.

What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

The planet's natural carbon sinks are reaching critical limits, absorbing fewer emissions than expected as decades of climate ...

Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans and primitive atmospheres during their early years. New experimental work ...

The risk of a cosmic body striking the Earth—or exploding in the atmosphere—may be higher in 2032 and 2036, researchers have ...