When an unidentified interstellar object several miles wide comes hurtling through our solar system at 37 miles a second, the ...

The waning Moon passes Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury before dawn, while Titan’s shadow transits Saturn in the sky this week.

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When humanity shifted from an economy based on balance to one driven by unrestrained exploitation, both environmental and ...

If Earth needs to borrow a cup of sugar, it's comforting to know that there may be a convenient, possibly habitable, world orbiting Alpha Centauri only 4.34 light years away – at least, if the ...

Astronomers had hoped to observe an atmosphere on one of the seven planets known to orbit Trappist-1, a red dwarf star. A new ...

Roughly two-thirds of all emissions of atmospheric methane—a highly potent greenhouse gas that is warming planet Earth—come ...

Alice Leeds, of Bristol, taught in a variety of private and public schools and colleges for forty years. Presently retired, ...

Yet, despite using the JWST's sensitive Near-Infrared Spectrometer, or NIRSpec, astronomers led by Piaulet-Ghorayeb found no ...

With the many universes Image Comics has published over the years, dozens of unique and eye-catching alien races have been created. These are the extraterrestrial species with the most interesting ...

The new findings on exoplanet TRAPPIST-1d, published in The Astrophysical Journal on Wednesday, mirror similar results for ...