This rare, four-eared shelter kitten looks like he beamed in from another planet, and the internet is obsessed.

The Big Duck has been making people smile for decades. Something about a giant duck just makes everyone happy. Even people ...

How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth’s dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big—and then think ...

Earth is home to an astonishing variety of life forms, some of which seem to defy our understanding of what animals should look like. While we often imagine aliens as strange beings from other planets ...

The race to compile a sort of catalogue of the planets orbiting distant Suns is intensifying, with the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, for instance, set to spot tens of thousands of such ...

Carole Haswell receives funding from STFC. We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of these is whether Earth is the ...

Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

In 1965, twelve astronauts vanished into deep space on a mission Earth never acknowledged—sent to live among aliens on a planet called Serpo. What they found was a world of impossible tech, but not ...

Astronomers studying extreme planetary systems have identified worlds so massive that they rival the smallest stars in size. These giant planets blur the line between planetary and stellar ...

Character creation at the start is pretty basic. You pick a few facial features, a hairstyle, and a skin tone, and that’s enough to get going. But this simplicity makes sense because there is a huge ...