Every second, our planet is racing through space at tens of thousands of miles per hour, yet the air outside the window ...

The comet will come much closer to Jupiter in March, zipping within 33 million miles. It will be the mid-2030s before it ...

Right now, as a passenger on planet Earth, you’re zooming through space at incredible speeds. But why can't you feel it?

Even worse, the orbit of Mars is elliptical (think of a slight oval rather than a perfect circle), which means that sometimes ...

Overview Energy has emerged from stealth with a proposal to turn existing solar farms into nighttime receivers for power transmitted from space, outlining a ...

New research shows Uranus’ fierce radiation belts were a short-lived blast from a solar storm, reshaping what Voyager 2 ...

The hunt is on for terrestrial exoplanets in habitable zones, and some of the most promising candidates were discovered ...

The stealthy startup plans to use a network of satellites to harvest sunlight and send it to Earth using infrared lasers.

Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's ...

Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...

EPA has scrubbed references to people’s contribution to rising temperatures from some of its climate change webpages. The ...

While an endless summer might sound nice, an extended period of heat will wreak havoc on the environment—humans included.