Liquid water alone doesn't make life possible, so a team of scientists looked for planets that receive enough ultraviolet radiation to create RNA.

Touching a star isn't easy. The sun is an enormous, searing-hot orb of plasma that generates a chaos of magnetic fields and can unleash deadly blasts of particles at a moment's notice.

NASA's $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe will have to wait at least another day to launch to the sun after a last-minute glitch forced the space agency to postpone the liftoff for at least 24 hours.

NASA's historic and audacious Parker Solar Probe mission, which will travel faster and get closer to the sun than any other spacecraft, lifted off early this morning (Aug. 11) from Florida.

The ability to reverse ageing is something many people would hope to see in their lifetime. This is still a long way from reality, but in our latest experiment, we have reversed the ageing of human cells, which could provide the basis for future an

Martian dust storms are a pretty common occurrence, and generally happen whenever the southern hemisphere is experiencing summer. Though they can begin quite suddenly, these storms typically stay contained to a local area and last only about a few

It moves upwards against gravity.

If planets come any hotter than KELT-9b we're yet to find them. Not only does this roasted ball of gas win first prize for scorching temperatures, it can now claim to be the first planet known to have free-roaming atoms of iron and titanium in its

SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by Elon Musk, held a hush-hush conference in Colorado this week to formulate a plan for landing people on Mars and building an outpost.

We can learn from this.

The past four years have been the four warmest ever recorded - and now, according to a new scientific forecast, the next five will also probably be "anomalously warm," even beyond what the steady increase in global warming would produce on its own.

Recognising faces is essential for how we interact in complex societies, and is often thought to be an ability that requires the sophistication of the large human brain.

Something feels familiar.

A global dust storm on Mars is threatening the future of NASA's Opportunity rover, the longest-lived robot on that planet.

A truly out-of-this-world vacation

Neil deGrasse Tyson defended Tesla CEO Elon Musk in an interview with TMZ, calling him "the best thing we've had since Thomas Edison."

When plants are under attack - say, for instance, by an insect making a tasty leaf meal - their defence systems are raised in other parts. How do they know to do that?

Last year the world took a turn for the worst. A global survey of human emotions has ranked 2017 as the gloomiest and most miserable year in more than a decade.