Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

Sir James Jeans, one of the world’s top mathematicians and an influential physicist and astronomer at the time, advanced his tidal hypothesis of planet formation in 1916. According to this theory, ...

University of Texas Arlington provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Right now, you’re zooming through space at incredible speeds. As just one of all the living creatures on Earth, ...

Ryan French receives funding from NASA. On Sept. 24, 2025, NASA launched two new missions to study the influence of the Sun on the solar system, with further missions scheduled for 2026 and beyond.

The Earth became darker from 2001 to 2024, meaning it reflects less sunlight, a research team reports in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The development is more pronounced ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have observed a young exoplanet, discovering clues to the formation ...

Every day on Earth, you experience weather. You feel the wind blowing and see clouds move across the sky. Sometimes there are storms where the wind gets really strong, it might rain, or there might be ...

Astronomers have recently identified a mysterious “glowing object” in Earth’s orbit. This intriguing discovery has stirred the scientific community and space enthusiasts, prompting speculation about ...

She flew to space on a record-breaking privately-led SpaceX mission -- now she is one of NASA’s newest astronauts. Anna Menon, 39, who flew on the Jared Isaacman-led Polaris Dawn mission in September ...

It is said that when a scientist enters the threshold of a science lab with his casual clothes he also puts off all his ...