The early years of our solar system were a period of unimaginable chaos and violence, a gravitational free-for-all where colliding planetary embryos competed for survival. In this tumultuous ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...

As the only known planet capable of supporting life, Earth had quite the rocky start, with no aid to sustain life. The presence of liquid water and a stable atmosphere did not exist when the planet ...

A pairing-off of the brightest planet and a slender crescent moon will be the chief celestial attraction in the dawn sky ...

Raw, unfiltered passion, instinctual self-preservation, warrior energy, and an unwavering desire to achieve our goals—these are the qualities of Mars. As the planet of ambition, drive, sexuality, and ...

If you lent a keen eye to the Mars Tactics trailer which dropped at today's PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct, you might have spotted the ability to establish universal basic income right next to a button ...

Seismic data from marsquakes provide insight into the Red Planet's interior. NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems Earthquakes can occur when our planet’s tectonic plates grind past each other. Mars ...

Barry Bostwick has a witty response at the ready anytime someone asks him if he can do the Time Warp. “I go, ‘Well, is it a step to the left or is it a step to the right?’ They have to say it's to the ...

A possible threat to life on Earth has been identified by researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil: asteroids that share Venus’s orbit but which currently can’t be detected. These ...

It’s a sweltering Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the kind of day that stretches the definition of Earth as a “habitable” planet. But on an eighth-floor terrace near the U.S. Capitol building, dozens of ...

This striking satellite image shows the stark difference between a giant field of sandy "stars" and a barren rocky wilderness in the Sahara Desert. The contrasting biomes also overlap with the border ...