Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

In February, researchers from conservation organisation Condrik Tenerife were about two kilometres off the coast of Tenerife Island, looking for sharks, when they caught sight of something much ...

The video has provoked an enormously empathetic response on social media, with some seeing the fish as a feminist icon or an Icarus-like figure who swam too close to the Sun. The reaction shows our ...

When Charlton Heston yelled, “Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!” he helped launch one of the most ...

Back in 1976, the dual NASA Viking landers came to full stop on the Red Planet. Their life detection experimental ... In ...

If you've got any interest in skygazing, this is your week. A stunning planet parade is now visible in the night sky. A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in ...

This latest planetary alignment or "planet parade" - set to take place on the evening of Feb. 28, just after dusk, according to SkyatNightMagazine. Once they are all in place, seven of the eight ...

The planet parade will begin to wane as spring arrives, and while the planets are still visible at the end of February, the increasing daylight hours may make it slightly harder to see the parade ...

You may recall that Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union. Depending on weather conditions, on most nights there is at least one planet visible.