In this video, we take you on a journey to the Pleistocene Epoch, a time when Earth looked vastly different from today.

Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system ...

In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

Spacecraft are not like the starships you see in movies. There is no endless supply of dilithium or hypermatter that lets you ...

The first interstellar object spotted in our Solar System was the cigar-shaped ‘Oumuamua, discovered in 2017 by the ...

Alien worlds are a great way to indulge in those “what if” questions and watchers get a chance to see how different life ...

We have discovered two interstellar objects so far, ’Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. ’Oumuamua had no dust tail and a significant nongravitational acceleration, which led to a wide variety of ...

Nearly a decade’s worth of data went into the first direct observation of sputtering on Mars, which researchers believe ...

Under the assumption that planetary dust particles can escape from the gravitational attraction of a planet, we consider the possibility of the dust grains leaving the star’s system by means of ...

Earth has a 1-in-500 (0.2 percent) chance that it will be lost due to either being ejected from the Solar System or colliding with another world.

Catch Escape From Planet Earth at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater in the Brown Venue. The show runs at various times throughout the festival from May 17–25, 2025.