A stream of charged particles known as the solar wind flows from the Sun toward Earth. Here, it meets the Earth’s magnetic fields, which shield our planet like a giant umbrella. The Space Umbrella ...

I don’t often cry while reading a comic book. But these words on the dedication page of “Galaxy: The Prettiest Star” brought me to tears: “For the girl who needed this book ...

President Donald Trump wrote in a social media post this past week that he would order release of the federal government’s ...

In a Truth Social post, the U.S. president said his move was based on the "tremendous interest" in the subject, without providing additional details.

In an Instagram post on Sunday, Obama said he had been trying to “stick with the spirit” of his interviewer, political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen, during a wide-ranging podcast released Saturday.

Dan Trachtenberg also told io9 a story he was worried he'd have to take to his grave about an early reaction to the film.

The new plot twist is that in order to keep enough nitrogen and phosphorus near its surface, a planet has to start out with ...

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 ...

One day, probably far off in the very distant future, if astronomers are correct in their assumptions about the vastness of space, Earth will be visited by intelligent beings from another planet.

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Illustration of the Earth-like exoplanet Proxima Centauri b orbiting the star Proxima ...

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 ...