A 43.8-kilowatt rooftop solar array installed by Everybody Solar will soon help the Harry Tompson Center carry out its mission to improve the daily lives of the unhoused community of New Orleans.

The war in Iran is exposing the world’s reliance on fragile fossil fuel routes, lending urgency to calls for hastening the ...

A recent SETI Institute study suggests that space weather could blur and weaken extraterrestrial radio signals long before they reach us.

WHEN you read the news these days, it’s easy to imagine that Earth is the worst planet in the Solar System. Sure, we are told ...

President Donald Trump and his NASA administrator are reviving the Pluto debate again — apparently at the urging of “Star ...

Then there’s the science. Project Hail Mary is based on Andy Weir’s ‘hard sci-fi’ book of the same name, published in 2021, six years after his earlier novel The Martian was adapted into Ridley ...

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new kind of planet beyond our solar system—one that may be covered by a vast, long-lasting ocean of molten rock and filled with sulfur deep inside. The planet, ...

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

Deep in the cold darkness beyond our Solar System, Oxford-led astronomers have discovered a world that defies easy categorisation: a small, rocky worl.

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers have so far identified over 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, only a ...

Out of the 6,000 known exoplanets, it's these rocky worlds that are most worthy of attention in the search for life beyond ...