Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth's, but are much denser on ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

There's evidence trapped in ancient ice that during warm periods millions of years ago, the ice-free Southern Ocean responded ...

Researchers in Antarctica think they might have been missing an essential part of the puzzle when it comes to melting ...

An iceberg that was once the biggest on the planet is floating off into the South Atlantic Ocean, where it will soon melt ...

You don't need a brain the size of a planet to know that a human brain is much larger than a baboon's. Since a human brain is ...

At half the size of Earth and one-tenth its mass, Mars is a featherweight as far as planets go. Yet new research reveals the ...

Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

The space rock, known as "2026 AJ" and 40 feet in diameter, is hurtling toward our planet at around 20,500 miles per hour.