New experiments on thallium decay have helped determine the Sun formed over 10–20 million years, improving stellar ...

Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.

Our guide to the best smart telescopes that will help you observe and capture images of the cosmos with just a tap of your ...

Could microbes survive in the permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) of the Moon? This is what a recent study presented at ...

SpaceX launched the private Fram2 mission Monday (March 31), sending a crew of four spaceflight rookies into an orbit never ...

Once thought a block of worthless ice, this continent is in fact incredibly valuable and plays a key role in stabilizing ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

With an underlying universal theme of convection, a new textbook introduces upper-level geology, geophysics, physics, and engineering students to the geophysics behind the Earth System.

They look like a dish of lentils, or a mass of spider eggs on a leaf. But whatever they are, these tiny little brown blobs, ...

Ellipses are defined as curves that surround two focal points. At any point on the ellipse, the sum of the distance to both ...

NASA’s Ames Research Center has introduced the Venus Life Equation (VLE), a model designed to estimate the likelihood of life ...