The largest known exoplanet has seven times the radius of Jupiter, 752 times its mass, and would take five months to ...

Exoplanets with Earth-like conditions could host life with structures and functions similar to Earth organisms, despite ...

What you're looking at here is the aftermath of a sun-like star that eventually reached the end of its life and poofed out ...

In a stunning moment of space history, a Soviet probe sent back the first-ever close-up images of Venus' mysterious surface.

When the clock strikes midnight and the world quiets down, a peculiar phenomenon emerges: the late-night Google search.

After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to what the next 30 years might offer. With the number of exoplanets having ...

I wonder how many discoveries in human history were made because someone thought: Let’s take a look around the corner? This ...

The common weasel, stoat, and European polecat may be silently disappearing from the Dutch landscape. At least, that is what ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into what is now Mexico, forming the Chicxulub crater. This impact wiped out the dinosaurs and around 75% of all species on Earth at the time. But ...

Bicentennial Park Nature Garden, Mexico City, Mexico. Image © Sergio Medellín courtesy Grupo de Diseño Urbano and The Cultural Landscape Foundation Recognized for ...