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

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

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

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – here’s how to spot the celestial show ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

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

Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...