The plot of the movie Independence Day could soon become reality—as early as this November. According to Harvard astronomer ...

As the climate warms and regional drying becomes more frequent, peatlands—some of the planet's most important carbon ...

Google DeepMind announced the AlphaEarth Foundations, an AI model that functions like a virtual satellite to characterize ...

"This discovery was partly serendipity! But, we believe there are many more such opportunities hidden in Hubble data." ...

In the 1950s, Stanley Miller and Nobel laureate Harold Urey conducted experiments at the University of Chicago in which they simulated the conditions of primordial Earth—an atmosphere of methane, ...

An ‘interstellar visitor’ spotted drifting into our solar system weeks ago is either a massive dirty snowball or an alien ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the object with the Atlas telescope in Chile earlier this week, and has confirmed it was a comet ...

NASA said the comet will make its closest approach to the sun in October, scooting between the orbits of Mars and Earth — but closer to the red planet than us at a safe 150 million miles (240 million ...