Scientists studying Saturn’s mysterious moon Enceladus say it may be one of the most promising places in our solar system to ...

Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just ...

Through new experiments, researchers in Japan and Germany have recreated the chemical conditions found in the subsurface ...

The world’s first legally binding agreement to protect marine life in international waters takes effect Saturday.

On Earth, deep-sea vents may have given rise to the planet’s first life. But nothing of the sort seems to be happening at the ...

Earth is home to creatures so strange, beautiful, and bizarre that it’s easy to forget we share the planet with them. These ...

Avatar writer and director James Cameron has discussed the possibility of moving forward with Avatar 4 and 5 following the ...

Planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune – so called sub-Neptunes – are the most common type of known exoplanet. It ...

Explore how astronomers aim to identify signs of alien life by analysing the atmospheres of distant exoplanets through ...

NASA’s Pandora mission will study exoplanet atmospheres by separating star light from planet signals, helping scientists learn which distant worlds may have air, water, and signs of life ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.