On the 95th anniversary of its discovery, Pluto remains one of the most beloved and enigmatic worlds in our solar system, ...

Edinburgh Science Festival is the first and still one of Europe’s biggest science festivals, taking place over the Easter ...

As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

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Elon Musk recently called for the ISS to be deorbited "as soon as possible." Experts say the station provides vital research, ...

According to an alternative model of how intelligent life emerges on planets like Earth, the existence of aliens—and human ...

Researchers from Penn State University proposed in a new academic paper that human-like lifeforms could arise as a logical consequence of a planet’s development — contradicting the long-held “hard ...

Human Planet, a cinematic experience, bringing you the most amazing human stories in the world today. Humans and wildlife surviving in the most extreme environments on Earth. The BBC has been ...

The simple answer is that Saturn’s rings do cast shadows on the planet’s surface! NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017, took the dramatic image of the rings ...