It may be part of the night sky we look up at each night, but the moon's origins remain a mystery that has left scientists ...

How much land, water, and other resources does our lifestyle require? And how can we adapt this lifestyle to stay within the limits of what the Earth can give? A new article tackles these questions.

It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

With eight billion people, we use a lot of the Earth's resources in ways that are likely unsustainable. Klaus Hubacek, ...

Established in 2002, the Hong Kong-based Shaw Prize, an international recognition of remarkable scientific achievements, is ...

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California — which manages many of NASA's high-profile robotic missions, such ...

The team has published its findings in Geochemical Perspective Letters. Marissa Tremblay, assistant professor with the ...

Despite being our closest celestial neighbor, the Moon's origin has remained a mystery to scientists. Since the 1980s, the ...

A new study suggests that Mars could have sustained rivers and seas even after it began cooling down due to a cycle of water ...

The Voyager 2 mission, which provided humanity's first and only close-up view of Uranus, revealed a planet with unexpectedly ...

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not mean Earth is not a hazard to it.