Our solar system hosts almost 900 known moons; more than 400 orbit the eight planets while the remaining orbit dwarf planets, ...

Astronomers have identified the most Earth like exoplanet yet, orbiting a sunlike star in the habitable zone 1,400 light years away. It is a snapshot of how far the search for life has come, and how ...

Earth-like planets have a thin crust, a large mantle (which contains a lot of molten magma), and a core. Inside these ...

Aliens exist - they just haven't visited Earth, NASA veteran Dr Gentry Lee has claimed.

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

Today, most ethylene is made through steam cracking, a process that uses high-temperature steam to break down crude oil into ...

Astronomers used the VLA and MeerKAT radio telescopes to search the Hycean exoplanet K2-18b for alien technosignatures, analyzing millions of signals but finding no confirmed artificial radio transmis ...

If our Moon suddenly vanished, Earth would already face dramatic consequences. But replacing it with entire alien worlds ...

Engineers have unveiled a bold new concept for an interstellar spacecraft capable of transporting up to 2,400 people on a one-way, 400-year voyage to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth.

It started with a rock that didn’t look like a big deal. Just a dark lump in the Sahara. The kind of thing you could walk ...

Astronomers have dived into the turbulent and chaotic heart of the Milky Way, discovering hidden chemistry around our galaxy's supermassive black hole.