Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

A layer of molten rock deep inside some rocky planets may be doing more than shaping their interiors. New research points to ...

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

"In our solar system, the most massive moon is Ganymede, which is still extremely small compared to what we are inferring ...

A sizzling exoplanet caught by the James Webb Space Telescope is shedding its atmosphere and leaving behind two gigantic helium tails.

ESA's first mission to another world, the Mars Express orbiter, began circling the Red Planet on June 2, 2003. Ever since, ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

A new MIT Global Change Outlook finds current climate policies and economic indicators put the world on track for dangerous ...

Scientists who work on long-term climate patterns usually stay close to Earth. The data is here, the records are clearer, and ...

From a distance, it looks like a serene blue twin of our own world, a dot that could almost pass for Earth in a telescope ...