April 22 is traditionally known as Earth Day, the occasion where we pause as temporary travelers on our 'blue marble' to ...

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and ...

Onboard the International Space Station (ISS), the Extant Life Volumetric Imaging System, dubbed ELVIS, is not about ...

We can imagine different ocean colors without borrowing too much from science fiction. Purple oceans would be possible on Earth if the levels of sulphur were high. This could be linked to intense ...

Scientists detect alien gases hinting at life on a distant planet. Discover the implications of this potential breakthrough.

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.

The Lucy mission prepares for its second asteroid flyby, a practice run before reaching Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.

Scientists have found what they are calling the strongest sign yet of possible life beyond our solar system after detecting ... planet's atmosphere that on Earth are only produced by living ...

Onboard the International Space Station (ISS), the Extant Life Volumetric Imaging System, dubbed ELVIS ... enhancing our search for life outside Earth. Beyond the capabilities of traditional ...

However, some of Earth’s oldest fish called coelacanths make it out unscathed. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 There was likely not a single definitive cause of this period of mass ...