Terraforming Mars has been the long-term dream of colonization enthusiasts for decades. But when you start to grapple with ...

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...

When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.

Some NASA Earth science missions have been told to prepare termination plans given the potential for major budget cuts in the ...

The Empty Quarter (Rub’ al-Khali), the vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula, was not always an arid landscape. A recent study ...

If the Moon were to suddenly vanish from the solar system, our home planet would suffer devastating consequences ...

Astronomers have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarfs are the cause of most type 1a supernova explosions. While the ...

It's not an exact science, which is why YR4's size ... aimed itself at a harmless – from the Earth's point of view – binary asteroid system consisting of asteroid Didymos (780m, or 2,559 ...

Could a reactionless, gravity-defying propulsion system actually work? A former NASA engineer says yes, but scientists are ...

The University of Hawaii astronomer’s interest in habitable worlds began at a geothermal field in Iceland, where she and a ...

Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs ...

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