The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar ...

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious dwarf planet, 2017 OF201, far beyond Pluto. This discovery challenges existing ...

A supercomputer may have just predicted when life on Earth will end, and, thankfully, it's going to be a long time from now.

Where are all the marine animals going? Given the vastness of the oceans, the countless species that live in them, and the ...

In the dry, sun-scorched deserts of Ethiopia, a slow but astonishing transformation has been unfolding since 2005. A ...

Beneath the thick ice of East Antarctica lies a hidden world—untouched for over 34 million years. This frozen expanse, more ...

Peer launched Global Simulation, a real-time digital Earth where players use avatars to connect by location and build relationships in a living, spatial network.

In a remote part of Western Australia, geologists have uncovered a mineral deposit of staggering size—one that promises to ...

The object’s aphelion—the farthest point on the orbit from the sun—is more than 1,600 times that of Earth’s orbit,” Institute ...

Download a map. Touch a piece of Mars ... which – at 4.567 billion years old – is even older than Earth! Today, there’s more evidence than ever before to suggest that life could exist beyond Earth.

A telescope similar to James Webb was launched in the orbit by NASA in 2025 to look for phenomena that the most powerful tool ...