Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...

Pluribus Episode 8 reveals the hive mind’s master plan, and it may have started long before the signal from Kepler-22b.

Astronomers photographed a baby planet, WISPIT 2b, during its formation process within a dusty ring around its star system.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station share Christmas wishes from orbit, marking the holidays with messages, decorations, and support from Earth ...

Complex life may be rare due to many necessary conditions like a stable star and planet. Earth's location in the galaxy minimizes exposure to harmful radiation. Jupiter's gravity may have protected ...

P erihelion – or the Earth's closest approach to our host star – will take place on January 3, 2026. At this point, our ...

The series "Imaginary Earths" speculates what the world might be like if one key aspect of life changed, be it related to the planet or to humanity itself. The rings of Saturn grant it a majesty ...

The planet is almost 25,000 miles around and 4.54 billion years old, and humans are still discovering some of the amazing secrets it's hiding. …and sometimes we may forget just how incredible our home ...

Earth — a planet of oceans, rivers and rainforests — grew up in an interplanetary desert. When the solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago, shards of calcium- and aluminum-rich minerals stuck ...

Today, oceans cover about 70% of Earth’s surface. This stark contrast has long driven scientific interest in how water ...

The new dataset, published in Earth System Science Data by 16 scientists, shows a significantly cooler Earth from the late ...