@Starlit Astronomy: The many mysteries of Venus may be related to a massive celestial impact event. In the early solar system ...

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

Right now, the chances of it hitting us in 2032 are small, but they’ve gone up a bit. It’s kind of wild to think about, but scientists are watching it closely. This whole thing makes you wonder about ...

Efforts to manage the Earth’s climate - whether by reducing pollution or deploying geoengineering - risk catastrophic ...

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

In the search for habitable exoplanets, atmospheric conditions play a key role in determining if a planet can sustain liquid ...

Amid the season with at least one meteor shower occurring every night, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may become visible to us ...

NASA published tantalizing evidence that the red planet once harbored life. But Trump’s proposed budget could leave the ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

New research on the planet TRAPPIST-1e reveals intriguing details about its potential habitability.