Earlier this month, researchers announced they found the smallest asteroids ever detected within the main belt, which is a ...

However, scientists still do not know where the water here on Earth came from in the first place. One leading idea is that ...

The water that makes up the oceans acted as a key ingredient for the development of life on Earth. However, scientists still ...

Some 2,600 light-years from our own Solar System dwells one of the most peculiar planetary systems in the entire galaxy.

WEST LAFAYETTE — NASA’s Mars 2020 rover mission and Purdue University planetary scientist Briony Horgan are approaching a new phase in the search for details about the red planet’s history ...

Unless we do something, we are in imminent danger of making a whole part of our Earth environment unusable,' one physicist warned during a meeting of experts in DC this month.

Mars, the Red Planet, may hold more secrets beneath its dusty surface than ever imagined. Recent discoveries suggest that ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft zipped just 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) above the volcanic world Io in 2024. The extraterrestrial ...

When human activities disrupt and unbalance ecosystems, such as by way of climate change and biodiversity loss, things go ...

Planets on the inner edge of extrasolar habitable zones could be habitable for a couple of billion years longer than ...