Research Indicates Uranus Moon to Have Hidden Oceans, Trenches on Ariel Could Reflect Subsurface Water Recent studies led by ...

In a nutshell New research challenges the long-held belief that human evolution required improbable “lucky breaks,” ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

Learn about the life and scientific contributions of Johannes Kepler, the 17th-century astronomer known for his laws of ...

NASA said the system is thought to be moving at least 1.2 million miler per hour, nearly twice as fast as our solar system.

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts notes while counterintuitive, the odds of impact go up before they drop to zero.

Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we speak with two people – a planetary scientist who studies the geology of the Moon, and a space lawyer who studies space policy and geopolitics – about ...

We asked experts at NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology what scientists know about the asteroid that could ...