Somehow, we’ll need to get the limited land on our hot and hungry planet to produce much more food to sustain us and absorb ...

A team of astronomers led by a British student found traces of the first-ever-discovered planet moving in a polar orbit ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...

The hunt for habitable worlds has become a hot topic in astronomy. For decades, the search has been focused on planets in the ...

Astronomers have believed for decades that the Milky Way is on a collision course with our nearest big neighbor, Andromeda.

Crucially, this bounce occurs entirely within the framework of general relativity, which applies on large scales such as ...

the elevation change on the surface amounts to 0.15% of the planet's diameter. From space, the surface of the Earth looks as smooth as a billiard ball.

Perhaps this is yet another example of children possessing a wisdom that they lose as they grow into adulthood: We belong ...

The odds of a galactic collision in our distant future are much lower than we thought, according to new simulations.

While space junk and meteors routinely veer toward a crash-landing on Earth, most of the objects ... The Aerospace Corporation. “So it’s clearly bowling ball-ish.” And though the Venus ...

Alien: Earth will bring us a rare sight from the Weyland-Yutani saga. No, I’m not talking about Timothy ... to think of it moving here among us, and so I can’t tell you under what ...