For about 4.5 billion years, our planet has circled the sun on a stable, rhythmic path. Each of Earth's orbits takes ...
Microbes, after all, play enormously consequential roles in the world around us and within us—I should credit the trillions ...
Using a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, it might be possible to use the sun as a gigantic telescope to peer deep ...
NASA's Curiosity rover has captured a spectacular sight from the surface of Mars: The first-ever photo of Earth alongside the ...
Astronomers have found evidence of a process that supports an alternative, more rapid approach to planetary formation, more ...
A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...
The Earth has pulled in moons of this type before but none have ever stuck around as long as the moon we know.