Every person, by nature, is afraid of something. This is how the self-preservation mechanism works. Fear of the dark, heights ...

A No Man's Sky player shares a remarkable encounter with the Atlas after finding the mysterious cosmic entity in a highly unusual situation.

Four centuries from launch, a vast spacecraft could deliver thousands of people to a world orbiting the nearest star. The ...

New research published in Nature Communications identifies an iron sulfate on Mars that may represent a brand-new mineral.

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system, revealing three layers like a wedding cake on a ferociously ...

Dwarf planet Eris, similar in size to its better-known cosmic cousin Pluto, has remained an enigma since being discovered in 2005 lurking in the solar system's far reaches. While Pluto was ...

Day’s team assembled its account of Mars’ formation using meteorite samples that all came from the same volcano, known as nakhlites and chassignites. Some 11 million years ago, a large meteor impact ...