Rocky planets the size of Earth or larger are expected to undergo one or more giant impacts during the final stages of their formation. Some of these collisions occur after protoplanetary disk ...

The UN warns that crossing 1.5°C of global warming is now unavoidable. The last glimmer of hope is radical emission-cuts, ...

The physicist on discovering his love of space, the influence of Carl Sagan and why the biggest threat to our future is ...

Prologue: Memories etched into this dayWe flip the calendar along with the crisp morning air. Faced with the date "October 18" written there, we might simply feel the deepening of autumn and let it ...

Last time, I finished building the game to the point where you can play "3-Orbit Endurance" and "One-on-One Contract" to the ...

Joan Laporta claims Barcelona are playing the best football in the world ahead of their Champions League tie with Galatasaray.

This summer, astronomers took one small step forward in the search for life beyond Earth. To find aliens, you first have to find a planet hospitable to life. Based on Earth, the only example we have, ...

Astronomers have found more than 6,000 planets in the Milky Way and calculate that hundreds of billions of planets exist in our galaxy alone—which could be extrapolated to predict a mind-blowing ...

In a cosmic first, scientists say they have detected a planet that may have formed from the burned remains of its dead host star. When a sunlike star dies, it first rapidly expands into a red giant ...

Atmospheric circulation governs weather and climate, but it also carries angular momentum. When winds shift or mass redistributes, the atmosphere can exchange momentum with the solid Earth, slightly ...