Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...

As long as Connecticut skies stay clear, residents should be able to see a number of planets as they put on a special ...

Her goal is clear yet staggeringly complex: to help “individuals and ordinary people” around the world take powerful ...

A new study suggests global warming’s effect on GDP has been vastly underestimated. Will it finally break through the ...

In the wilds of South Africa’s Northern Cape, poaching ‘green diamonds’ has become an almost irresistible temptation ...

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have ...

Earth,” dubbed HD 20794 d, boasts a mass six times that of our planet and resides within the star’s “habitable zone.” The ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

One of the most powerful online tools at your disposal is the sprawling Google Earth project, which allows you to use ...

A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was referred to ... but it never actually entered into an orbit around our planet. However, this almost-mini-moon is still special as ...