Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

If you looked at the churning clouds near Jupiter’s pole, they appear like ocean currents on Earth — as if you’re looking at ...

In this lightning round Q&A, Joe Scott takes on a rapid-fire set of fascinating and bizarre questions from viewers. Topics ...

With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very different to Earth. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ...

As astronomers study an exoplanet called K2-18b, conflicting research reveals how difficult it is to find evidence of life beyond Earth.

SCIENTISTS have stumbled across a new Super-Earth that orbits inside its star’s habitable zone with a new alien-hunting tool. Searching for Earth-like planets – and Earth-like life R… ...

Inside the belly of planet Earth, a giant solid ball of metal is surrounded by a swooshing layer of liquid iron and nickel, ...

The asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth at 7.59 p.m. ET (2359 GMT) on June 5, at which time it will pass 2,170,309 miles (3,492,787 kilometers) from our planet, over nine times the ...

A medical emergency ended with a remarkable rescue in Houston after a young woman suffering a stroke mid-air was saved by a man on board and a team of doctors at Memorial Hermann.

When Ecology announced its first drought emergency in April, Sixkiller said he was hoping the state might still have a chance for a final shot of snow to pull back from the brink.

The planet will just keep getting flatter and more boring, he predicts, until “Earth splashes into what’s left of the sun.” Prophets of Plate Tectonics Other researchers have come up with ...