Astronomers have identified GJ 251 c, a super-Earth exoplanet just 18 light-years away, orbiting within its star's habitable ...

As private companies race to make spaceflight routine, Earth’s upper atmosphere has become an unintended testing ground. Each ...

Yet another huge chunk of space debris survived re-entry intact, landing in the middle of a road in Australia.

The discovery, led by an international team that included scientists from Penn State University, offers fresh hope in the ongoing search for Earth-like planets.

A new review reveals how tiny shell-building plankton quietly drive carbon cycling and influence global climate change.

In a secluded corner of the Lynx constellation, just 18 light-years from our planet, astronomers have found a stunning ...

Threats from space aren't always obvious, but statistically, it's only a matter of time before one of them happens. One of ...

Astronomers have discovered GJ 251 c, a rocky super-Earth just 20 light-years away, one of the most promising nearby worlds ...

Now, astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable world less than 20 light-years from here, which could be ...

The salad on your plate may owe its existence to a thunderstorm. Many people are wary of lightning as a natural phenomenon. A ...

The blob is a large-scale marine heat wave in the northern Pacific Ocean. It was first detected in 2013 and was caused by a ...

Students from Piedmont Elementary School launched a weather balloon on Friday afternoon. “This is one of the biggest ...