"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

The curious minds at What If imagine the chaos if the Moon suddenly transformed into Jupiter, exploring how its immense size and gravity would upheave tides, climates, and life on Earth.

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up surprises. A new paper reveals the latest: a possible rocky planet slightly larger ...

This shifts our entire perspective on what makes a planet “Earth-like.” Nature is far more creative than our own solar system suggests. The universe might be teeming with “magma-shielded” worlds that ...

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows. The complex precursors to ...

The idea sounds simple enough when reduced to its basics. Put reflective surfaces in orbit and redirect sunlight back to Earth after sunset. A Califor.

A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a ...

Dr Michael Guillen, a former lecturer at Harvard University, has argued that heaven exists at the "cosmic horizon", the outermost edge of the observable universe ...

The astrophysicist was one of the first researchers to bring astronomy closer to the general public and to advocate the ...

On Tuesday, the Doomsday Clock was set at 85 seconds to midnight - midnight represents the moment at which people will have ...

While popular AI models such as ChatGPT are trained on language or photographs, new models created by researchers from the Polymathic AI collaboration are trained using real scientific datasets. The ...