Othmar Schmiderer wanted to avoid "fear-mongering or finger-wagging" but sees a "possible colonization of distant planets as ...

The curious minds at What If imagine what would happen if human history ended today.

Cosmic radio pulses repeating every few minutes or hours, known as long-period transients, have puzzled astronomers since ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

By 10am, the sun is already high and unrelenting, its glare sharp enough to make the lake shimmer like a moving sheet of ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.

In Dirt, Montgomery says we have lost the top 10 feet of soil across the globe. To put this in perspective: in a Melinda ...

Local residents in Vedanthangal become nature guides, enhancing visitor experiences and promoting biodiversity through ...

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

This shifts our entire perspective on what makes a planet “Earth-like.” Nature is far more creative than our own solar system suggests. The universe might be teeming with “magma-shielded” worlds that ...

“In many decisions, nature has been treated as essentially worthless or of negligible value when compared to other kinds of ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...