Humans can make some pretty amazing things, but nothing we ever do will beat the awe-inspiring natural phenomena created by ...

After an amazing orbital flight, billionaire-pilot Jared Isaacman says he aims to safeguard human civilization by sprinkling ...

We all know cacti store water—but to survive, they migrate their flowers, and so much more. Scientists want to copy the ...

When a meteorite with the mass of four Mount Everests hit Earth 3.2 billion years ago, it caused global chaos and provided an ...

Astronomers scanned TRAPPIST-1 for alien signals, setting new detection limits in the most extensive single-target search for ...

Pluto has five moons—“fun-looking space potatoes,” Singer calls them—and its largest is a behemoth. Charon was discovered in ...

And although the band of ancient craters is the only physical evidence such a ring ever existed, life on Earth likely ...

If life exists on Mars, a creature would have to withstand radiation and have access to water. One potential niche fulfilling ...

Hawaii's native tree snails, known as the "jewels of the forest," are rapidly disappearing. Some of the most imperiled only ...

A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then ...

An asteroid's orbit may reveal an invisible fifth force that could rewrite the rules of physics. Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid ...