Jane Goodall, a pioneering primatologist, studied chimpanzees, blending wildlife science with spirituality, sparking controversy and admiration worldwide.

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) is more than just a club for students who are passionate about ...

Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a ...

With the recent discovery of traces of what may or may not be or have been life on Mars, eyes are turning to another world in ...

Complex, intelligent life in the galaxy appears vanishingly rare, with the nearest possible civilization perhaps 33,000 light ...

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

Previous experiments on board the International Space Station (ISS) have shown that certain types of bacteria can survive in ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

The other rocky planets in the solar system have a single ... geoscientists agree that it probably helped fuel the evolution ...

Brown dwarfs: too small to be stars, too big to be planets. Only discovered in the 1990s, these in-between cosmic objects aren’t big enough to burn as hot and bright as a true star, instead usually ...

Stuart Jefferies’ first time through the looking glass? He huddled with a friend at the bottom of Haleakala Crater in Hawaii. Camping. Late 1980s. “My friend had brought his eight-inch telescope with ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earth-like planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...