Across the Milky Way and beyond, planetary systems appear to fall into a few recurring blueprints, and recent exoplanet ...

Human bodies are exquisitely tuned to one world, and it is not a forgiving one. Strip away our technology and even Earth would kill us in minutes in the wrong place, yet our home planet is still the ...

Even most rocket scientists would rather avoid hard math when they don't have to do it. So when it comes to figuring out ...

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...

Earth is the only rocky body in the inner solar system with strong magnetic poles. But where do these poles come from, and what do they do? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

David Rothery is co-leader of the European Space Agency's Mercury Surface and Composition Working Group, and a Co-Investigator on MIXS (Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer) that is now on its way to ...