Scientists identify exoplanet candidate HD 137010 b, a possible Earth-size world orbiting a Sun-like star 146 light-years away ...

In this age of Mars rovers, questions about the planet's ancient past have shifted. A growing body of evidence supports the idea that Mars was once warm and wet. Now researchers are focused on the ...

Earth froze over Ice crept down from the poles to the equator, and the dark subglacial seas suffocated without sunlight to ...

I have always loved the idea of going to outer space. I grew up reading Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick. There is something ...

Study in the International Journal of Astrobiology tests how water bears survive in simulated Mars soil, revealing how regolith may limit Earth microbes and what it means for planetary protection and ...

Whether you’re a hopeless romantic pleasure-seeker (I’m looking at you, fellow people who came into the world on the 6th, ...

A total lunar eclipse is the highlight of the month. For planetary action, Jupiter is well placed most of the night and there are many events involving its Galilean moons. Soon after sunset, ...

It was likely debris from Kosmos 482 — a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1972 as part of a mission to Venus. The launch failed. The probe never made it to its ...