As railways enter their third century of service, research must support their renaissance for more-sustainable travel that ...

September's planetary parade features five planets, three of them visible to the naked eye. Here’s when and where to look ...

That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.

Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named ...

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming disks around young stars could become the seeds ...

The closest technological species to us in the Milky Way galaxy could be 33,000 light years away and their civilization would ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the Lasker Awards for biomedical research, how gene editing could cure ...

"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." ...

On the Red Planet, aurorae glow green because the charged particles collide with oxygen atoms high above Mars. They may be ...

Fossil-fuel producers should be taxed to defray the cost of climate change, not be given even larger subsidies.

It is the morning after he became the fastest man in the world and, while hardly anonymous, there is certainly an ...

It’s been nearly 2 centuries since a planet was discovered in the solar system. But now scientists think they’ve uncovered ...