Liquid water on asteroids reshapes how we understand the early solar system. A group of scientists, including researchers from the University of Tokyo, has found evidence that liquid water once moved ...

The Alien franchise works because it traps its characters in impossible situations where survival depends on cunning, luck, ...

A skull found in Petralona Cave in Greece is at least 286,000 years old, revealing the existence of an ancient human species ...

The finding suggests phosphine—a potential biosignature—shouldn’t be viewed as evidence of alien life until natural, ...

A young rogue planet 620 light-years from Earth has baffled scientists as it puts on a record-breaking 'growth spurt'.

The air on Venus is about 96.5% carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas. All that CO2 leads to a runaway greenhouse effect ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown asteroid impact hidden in tiny glass fragments scattered across South Australia. Curtin University scientists have contributed to the discovery of ...

Forecasts for early October indicate that there's almost certainly more activity to come. On Oct. 2, two new potential storms were developing.

Animal life is a recent addition to Earth, relatively speaking. The planet formed about 4.5 billion years ago, with microbial life likely emerging between 4.3 and 3.7 billion years ago. It was not ...

We're into October, which means that the Orionid meteor shower—one of the few astronomical displays that can be reliably ...

The Red Sea's history is far more dramatic than many might imagine. A recent study has revealed an extraordinary ...

Once cut off from the seas and dried into a salt desert, the Red Sea was reborn 6.2 million years ago by a massive flood that ...