O n a bright morning in Africa, the farm was full of life and cheerful sounds. The rooster flapped its shiny red feathers ...

As lunar missions increase, scientists warn that spacecraft exhaust may contaminate sensitive regions of the moon faster than ...

What was originally thought to be a planet orbiting the Fomalhaut star was probably just the fallout of a wild collision.

Oymyakon, Russia, is the coldest permanently inhabited village on Earth, with official temperatures reaching -67.7 °C.

At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...

Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...

In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...

At half the size of Earth and one-tenth its mass, Mars is a featherweight as far as planets go. Yet new research reveals the ...

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...

Near absolute zero, atoms stop acting like particles and start behaving like waves. In this ultracold world, scientists can ...