The idea of cosmic threats to Earth almost sounds like the stuff of fiction. But while alien invasions may be far fetched, ...

Thimmamma Marrimanu is a banyan tree that has survived multiple cyclones and persevered to witness half a millennium of human ...

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets – almost ...

Two papers showed these intriguing signals, but the team stresses that there are currently many uncertainties to confirming ...

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

The exoplanet Enaiposha, or GJ 1214 b, is a hazy world orbiting a red dwarf star about 47 light-years from Earth. Previously likened to a mini-Neptune, in-depth observations obtained using JWST now ...

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new discoveries about an extreme form of planetary destruction: apparently ...

Emily Simpson, a passionate space enthusiast and recent Florida Tech graduate, has published groundbreaking research that imagines an alternate version of our solar system. Instead of the asteroid ...

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.