Magnetism itself may have given our solar system the architecture needed for habitability. A team at the University of Oxford ...

COP29 fizzled out as catastrophe looms. Could a mass change in political consciousness still stave off the worst?

Panspermia is the hypothesis that life can survive the transfer between planetary bodies as a secondary path for life to get ...

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy, named UGC 10043. We don’t see the galaxy’s spiral arms because we are seeing it from the side. Located roughly 150 million ...

Interactions between Earth and the solar system have profoundly shaped the planet’s history, influencing evolution and ...

Two previously unknown Neolithic stone circles have been found in England, and they may have been part of a "sacred arc," an archaeologist says.

Microorganisms on a sample of asteroid are clearly terrestrial — despite strict protocols to avoid contamination.

By analyzing tree rings for carbon-14, a naturally occurring radioactive variant of carbon, the team detected this ancient ...

New research reveals Earth likely had Saturn-like rings 466 million years ago. Now scientists say this could point to ...

A large planet has been spotted orbiting a dwarf star that is just 3 million years old, offering possible clues to how the ...

In the last century alone, material changes to the average standard of living have dramatically improved human health and ...