A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

Why is Pluto no longer a planet? Discover the real reason behind Pluto’s reclassification as a dwarf planet and the science that led to this change.

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may not be the full picture.

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

Scientists have been unable to determine whether the dwarf planet’s organics were produced by its own chemical processes or ...

NASA has just made a groundbreaking discovery—a new planet beyond Neptune that wasn’t there before! This mysterious find could change how we understand our solar system and the universe itself. Is ...

There's a new race in space, but it's not where you might think. It's happening close to home – in the nearest bit of space, ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...