The hunt for habitable worlds has become a hot topic in astronomy. For decades, the search has been focused on planets in the ...

In the cold, dark outskirts of planetary systems far beyond the reach of the known planets, mysterious gas giants and ...

Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

The curious minds at What If detail the terrifying findings scientists made on a planet eerily similar to Earth.

Earth is full of surprises — and some of them look totally out of this world. This video explores stunning locations that could be mistaken for alien landscapes. From strange colors to bizarre rock ...

It took 250 years for the Laschamps reversal to take place and it stayed in the unusual orientation for about 440 years. At ...

The Kosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth today (May 10) after circling our planet for more than five decades. Reentry occurred ...

If you’ve ever zoomed in a little too far on Google Earth and stumbled across something bizarre, you’re not alone. Satellite ...

U.S. astronomers hunting for "Planet Nine" have instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system's outer reaches.

THERE are planets beyond our own that could be hiding untouched paradises.  Exoplanet LHS 1140 b is just one of them – and ...

A decade after the release of "The Martian" and a decade out from the world it envisions, how close is reality to fiction?