A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

This 2022 satellite photo shows the summit of "one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes," Mount Vesuvius, peering up ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

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 ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

The Earth-observation company Planet just inked its largest deal to date, a $230 million contract to deliver a fleet of its new Pelican satellites.

She is strikingly beautiful with her white feathers, speckled in black and brown. She appears to have a little half smile. It is pure magic, the best of planet Earth.

Alongside the older artifacts are contemporary pieces from institutions around the world, by artists meditating ... “It’s hard to find somewhere on earth that doesn’t have that connection.” ...