By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 03/06/2013 09:47 AM EST on SPACE.com The surface of the planet Mercury has been completely mapped for the first ti...
How do we create prosperity for all without destroying the natural world that sustains us? We can do this, but we must first awaken to what is truly needed.
By Caleb A. Scharf This year has been a spectacular one for exoplanets. New discoveries and new insights have truly pushed the gateway to other world...
By Ken Croswell One young star may yank another's developing solar system, a new theory suggests, accounting for planets that circle their stars on ...
By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 11/12/2012 03:13 PM EST on SPACE.com A cosmic mystery around the star named 49 CETI has puzzled astronomers nearly ...
By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 09/05/2012 11:44 AM EDT on SPACE.com Astronomers have found a dusty tail streaming off a faraway alien planet, sugg...
By: Charles Q. Choi Published: 09/04/2012 11:45 AM EDT on SPACE.com The discovery of the first alien planet with two suns — like the "Sta...
LOS ANGELES -- The Mars rover Curiosity is hitting the road. It headed east Tuesday, driving 52 feet toward a spot where it will use its robotic arm ...
The countdown to the arrival of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on the Red Planet in early August has begun in dramatic fashion as the mission's engineers...
By Govert Schilling ANCHORAGE, ALASKA—Brown dwarfs are a sorry lot. If it wasn't bad enough that these Jupiter-sized "failed stars" are born too...
by Richard A. Kerr on 5 April 2012, 2:06 PM Earth may have terrifying tornadoes, but when it comes to dust devils, Mars has us b...
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA has decided to keep its planet-hunting spacecraft running for several more years. The space agency said Wednesday the...
It is conceivable that humans could someday discover aliens. We scour the cosmos looking for their radio signals, and though we're not capable of int...
By surveying the versatile ecology of cow dung, even urban dwellers, like me, can see the earthy pragmatism embedded in the Indian worship of cows (and indeed all life) as sacred.
By: Geoff Gaherty Published: 03/26/2012 07:03 AM EDT on SPACE.com The planet Venus has been dominating the nighttime sky recently, but did you k...
By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 03/05/2012 07:15 AM EST on SPACE.com This story was updated at 10 p.m. ET. A NASA spacecraft circling Saturn has...
By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 02/24/2012 11:44 AM EST on SPACE.com Our Milky Way galaxy may be teeming with rogue planets that ramble through s...
In the video above, a tiny sun floats through the haze over rocky ground. It's a bleak and alien view, but that's no scene from a science fiction film...
By Sid Perkins ScienceNow (Click here for the original article.) Venus, our closest planetary neighbor, has the slowest rotational period of an...
By: Charles Q. Choi, Astrobiology Magazine Contributor Published: 02/11/2012 02:00 PM EST on SPACE.com Alien planets might experience tidal for...
By: Denise Chow Published: 02/02/2012 10:16 AM EST on SPACE.com A potentially habitable alien planet — one that scientists say is the best ca...
By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 01/20/2012 03:56 PM EST on Space A new look at an alien planet that orbits extremely close to its par...
AUSTIN, Texas – An enigmatic object detected five years ago in space may be a ringed alien world comparable to Saturn, the first such world discove...
WASHINGTON -- The more astronomers look for other worlds, the more they find that it's a crowded and crazy cosmos. They think planets easily outnumber...
