The first false-color image from ESA's newly operational Biomass satellite shows off a unique perspective of the rainforests, ...

The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

NASA's Perseverance rover discovered rocks on Mars, providing new evidence the red planet was once a wet, habitable world ...

For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...

As commercial spaceflight draws ever closer and time spent in space continues to extend, the question of reproductive health ...

The chemicals that helped save the ozone layer may be quietly seeding the planet with an indestructible pollutant.

Leave it to one of the most famous men on the planet to have no idea that his heartbreaking scene in Interstellar became a ...

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that it’s only been seen once—and may never be glimpsed again ...

Scientists uncover 97-million-year-old magnetic fossils that may represent Earth’s earliest GPS, revealing how ancient ...

Ancient volcanic rocks reveal how two giant hot regions beneath Africa and the Pacific have shaped Earth's magnetic shield.

For the first time in 54 years, humans will head toward the moon this week. So why does it feel like most of us are barely ...