Across the Milky Way and beyond, planetary systems appear to fall into a few recurring blueprints, and recent exoplanet ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its closest approach to Earth on Dec. 19. Here's how you can track its progress both during ...

The rings of Saturn are normally thought to be flat, but measurements by the Cassini spacecraft show that some of their ...

Webb’s latest observations reveal a hellish world cloaked in an unexpected atmosphere: TOI-561 b, an ultra-hot rocky planet ...

I/ATLAS comet is the 3rd-ever object discovered that originated from outside our solar system. It's not a threat, approaches ...

For thousands of years, Earth operated within a stable, forgiving range of conditions that allowed human civilizations to flourish. That stability might soon be a thing of the past. A new scientific ...

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today presented a 26-member team with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling in recognition of their project "Computing the Full Earth System at 1 ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun. Artist’s impression of the collision between ...

If you've ever wondered why we are here, then you can thank Jupiter for part of the answer. A new study from Rice University suggests that if it weren't for the gas giant, the Earth would have ...

Not all maps chart the Earth’s surface — and the David Rumsey Map Center’s newest exhibition in Green Library proves just that. The exhibit “Above & Below: Cartography Beyond Terrain” opened on Oct. 8 ...

Space can surprise even those who spend their lives studying it. People often think of our solar system as just a few planets and a bunch of empty space. Yet new observations suggest we have been ...