The Moon is slowly spinning away from Earth and an expert has explained that this could have devastating effects ...

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up empty-handed? A recent ...

What if humanity's search for life on other planets returns no hits? An international team of researchers, led by ETH ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all ...

As four space tourists orbited the north and south poles earlier this month and marvelled at the views of Earth, a group of ...

Fluorescent cave minerals are helping scientists explore how life could survive in harsh places like Europa. Far beneath ...

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

Imminent loss of NASA's Aura and Canada's SCISAT will severely diminish scientists’ ability to monitor ozone-depleting substances in the stratosphere.

"Decreasing the capacity to support this sector makes our nation less resilient and more vulnerable to space weather." ...

Researchers bombarded lichens with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that the ...

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) telescope took its ...