A rare rock from Mars known as Meteorite NWA 16788 will be up for auction at Sotheby's on July 16. The meteorite may sell for ...

In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...

Such a planet would be between 1.5 to three times Earth's size and would reside somewhere between 23 billion miles (37 billion km) to 46 billion miles (74 billion km) from the sun, astronomers say.

Earth’s continents may owe their existence to bombardment from outer space Rather than forces within. Share. ... This makes it difficult to reconstruct the 4.5bn-year-old planet’s formative years.

In theory, panspermia is fairly simple. Astronomers know that impacts from comets or asteroids on planets will sometimes eject debris with enough force to catapult rocks into space. Some of those ...

The first image of Earth from outer space was taken in 1946. Since then, there have been many more photos of a round Earth taken from outer space, proving that the Earth is not flat.

Outer Space around earth is already pretty crowded. Tech firms are racing to pack even more satellites in - Thousands of satellites in low-Earth orbit could create a doom loop of dangerous debris ...

Even if an asteroid flyby did pick up a few microbes from Earth, it’s highly unlikely that they would survive the journey, much less land on another planet with conditions similar to ours.

In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane book Audition, the stars are both a dystopian place and a site of uncharted possibility.

Are Octopuses From Outer Space? Study Suggests Cephalopod Eggs Traveled to Earth on a Comet Published May 17, 2018 at 8:47 AM EDT Updated May 18, 2018 at 8:13 AM EDT ...

This line, given it marks the boundary between Earth and space, not only denotes where an aircraft's limits lie, but is also crucial for scientists and engineers when figuring out how to keep ...

The lithosphere is Earth's outermost layer, composed of the crust and the upper part of the mantle. The layer is divided into chunks called tectonic plates.