Earth is approaching a critical moment in the future habitability of the planet. Credit: NASA images by Reto Stöckli, based on data from NASA and NOAA ...

Regardless of Musk's ambitions, leaving Planet Simple demands more than a rocket: We need a paradigm shift in how we understand our relationship with complex systems.

T he Planet of the Apesfranchise has offered several different versions of humanity's demise in its nearly 60-year history, and even the original films were inconsistent. The 1968 Charlton Heston ...

The discovery of the exoplanet, a super-Earth called Kepler-735c, is all down to something called transit timing variations, or TTVs for short. Advertisement Let's set the scene.

Bad news, earthlings. Computer simulations of the solar system’s future reveal a new risk facing us all: The gravitational tug of a passing star could either cause another planet to smack into ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

Scientists now believe that our galaxy is filled with solar systems, including up to a billion planets roughly the size of our own. The film employs advanced, data-driven, cinematic-quality ...

Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released Tuesday in Astronomy & Astrophysics astronomers who have been studying ...

The planet’s large size – with a radius 2.6 times that of Earth – means that the planet’s interior likely contains a large mantle of high-pressure ice, like Neptune, according to astronomers.

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 ...