A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February, 2025, ...

Astronomers have mapped the 3D structure of an alien planet's atmosphere for the first time, revealing a layered system of extreme winds.

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

Image an alien planet where savage winds rip through the atmosphere carrying molten iron and titanium particles. Such a ...

The research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

Researchers from Penn State University proposed in a new academic paper that human-like lifeforms could arise as a logical consequence of a planet’s development — contradicting the long-held “hard ...

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar ...