Panspermia is the hypothesis that life can survive the transfer between planetary bodies as a secondary path for life to get ...

Lightning strikes in the atmosphere can trigger a rain of high-powered “killer electrons” in low-Earth orbit that form ...

What if Earth were furious with humanity? What if revolutionaries took their cues from an unruly planet? Anne ...

The hood of B. caudactylus can also act something like a Venus flytrap. While it is not a hinged structure like the leaves of ...

The Snowball Earth hypothesis has been largely based on evidence from sedimentary rocks exposed in areas that once were along ...

The mini-moon 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for two months and is likely a chunk of the moon, will now drift away ...

What's harder than flying a single satellite in Earth orbit? Flying two—right beside each other, at proximities that would ...

A planet like Earth has an iron-nickel core that comes in two parts, a solid inner core and a molten outer core. When any terrestrial planet is born, its core is entirely molten, and the solid ...

Preliminary research suggests asteroid 2024 PT5, which stuck around Earth for almost two months, has lunar origins ...

Astronomers heading the search for extraterrestrial intelligence predict their quest might first spark an encounter with ...