From the surface, Earth looks like a relatively ordinary rocky planet, wrapped in clouds and a thin blue atmosphere. A new ...

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my ...

NASA’s SPHEREx has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, which are invisible to the human eye but can be used to ...

Long before scientists discovered that other stars in the universe host their own planetary systems, humanity had ...

The rapid diversification of ants has “led to their role as ecological engineers” that can work in habitats across the world, ...

North India's survival hinges on protecting this ancient mountain range from degradation and climate threats. Here's why it matters to the ecosystem in and around it.

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Deep beneath our feet, far beyond the reach of drills or submersibles, Earth hides a solid metal heart that behaves in ways geophysicists have struggled to explain. New experiments now suggest that a ...

A time to look back on the best sci-fi TV shows of 2025 and say "blimey, that was pretty damn good". The top sci-fi TV shows ...

Earthquakes may be unpredictable, but their impacts are not entirely mysterious. New modeling techniques are offering a clearer view beneath the surface.

For more than a decade, scientists have accepted that Titan, Saturn’s biggest moon, has a subsurface ocean of liquid water. A ...

On December 19, avid skywatchers can catch a glimpse of the mysterious visitor through powerful binoculars or a telescope when it’s around 170 million miles from our home planet ...