The Martian new year arrives with the Red Planet’s vernal equinox. Explaining why requires a deep dive into celestial ...

A supposedly stable belt of radiation 7000 km above the Earth’s surface may in fact be producing damaging bursts of ...

When giant ice sheets that once covered the tropics melted, they produced what paleoclimatologists call a “plumeworld ocean”, ...

Scientists observed that all examined craters are situated within 30 degrees of the equator. This concentrated impact area, ...

Indonesia’s best-kept secret is Raja Ampat, a jungle-covered archipelago replete with wildlife and surrounded by coral reef – easily the world’s last unspoiled destination, writes Paul Walters There ...

Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.

NASA is planning to send a drone to a nearby moon that will hunt for alien life. The Dragonfly probe will explore Titan, Saturn’s largest moon – around 745 million miles from Earth. That ...

It will definitely miss Earth in 2029 and 2036, and observations made in March ... While it will pass closer than some of ...

The conclusions come from patterns tracked by scientists that point to several meteorite impacts through geological records.

A six-mile-thick crust of methane trapped in water ice could explain many of the saturnian moon's weird properties ...

When a satellite is decommissioned in low-Earth orbit, operators will try to dispose of it by burning it up in Earth’s atmosphere. But the large metal objects don’t always entirely disintegrate, with ...