The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy provides a preview of one possible fate ...

An astronomer has said Mars might be very different from other planets in our solar system because of a long lost moon. The ...

By 2050, global demand for electricity is expected to rise by as much as 75%, according to the U.S. Energy Information ...

Solutions to the problem of climate change have never been more clear. But the scale of the problem keeps getting bigger.

The extreme temperature changes the massive 'hot Jupiter'-type planet may make it rain iron at night. Credit: Space.com | visualizations: NASA, ESA, Quentin Changeat (ESA/STScI), Mahdi Zamani ...

In September 1859, the same year that Darwin published "On the Origin of Species," telegraph systems across Europe and North ...

Let’s start with a clear definition of what constitutes a mass extinction. Unlike regular extinctions, which occur at a steady background rate — about 10% of species lost every million years — mass ...

Mars hosts some of the most extreme terrain in the solar system ... quickly and its tidal bulges became locked into the ...

Scientists overwhelmingly agree that as humans continue burning fossil fuels, our collective emissions of greenhouse gases are unnaturally warming the planet. If this trend is not quickly stopped ...

our collective emissions of greenhouse gases are unnaturally warming the planet. If this trend is not quickly stopped (and, ...

Large moon’s mass could have caused tidal bulges in Mars’ molten surface A long-lost moon could explain ... which could have dramatically altered the planet’s landscape. Mars is known for hosting some ...

Mars is known for hosting some of the most extreme terrain in the solar system, including Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano, ...