“Humanity doesn’t need a moon-base or a manned trip to Mars. We need an expedition to planet Earth, where probably fewer than 10 per cent of species are known to...

The planet Venus passed conjunction with the sun on June 9 and is now emerging into view in the western evening sky. But it will be a long and tedious process. Even by...

By Vincent Van Ross We talk of the Sun; we talk of the Moon; we talk of our solar system; we talk of outer space; we talk of Unidentified Flying Objects. But, is there...

Should we be alarmed at the current massive die-offs being noted in the animal and plant kingdoms? After all, new species arise and old species die off all the time.

A television company has joined forces with a social networking site to send a message to the nearest theoretically inhabitable planet. But can our television and radio...

The common mantra that there is nothing special about our place in the universe is questioned today by a simulation of the birth of our Solar System.

Pluto is finally getting its day in the sun, after being stripped of planetary status by astronomers two years ago.

Japan’s Maruyama Shigenori, one of the world’s leading geophysicists, is working on a global formula for a vast new field of study that would include dozens...

Chirps and whistles of our planet\’s auroral kilometric radiation (AKR) might be the first thing an extraterrestrial civilization is likely to hear from Earth. In...

There\’s a global computing effort dedicated to moving vast volumes of data around the world. You already knew that, but this one isn\’t being used to...

Researchers said they discovered a batch of three “super-Earths” orbiting a nearby star, and two other solar systems with small planets as well. They said...

NASA’s Mars Phoenix lander touched down in the far north of the Red Planet yesterday and has started sending first pictures of the unexplored region. This flight...

Mars and Venus, those seemingly contrasting planets of self-help book fame, have more in common than you might think. Two nearly identical spacecraft around Mars and...

Stephen Hawking’s latest remark that it’s time for humans to colonize other planets that exist in far away solar systems if the race is to survive, pulls...