In the last few years, astronomers have discovered three small rocks circling Proxima Centauri, part of a triplet star system ...

On November 12 2014, Philae – the lander of the spacecraft Rosetta of the European Space Agency (ESA) – landed on a comet for ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday named Chris Wright, the CEO of Denver-based fracking company Liberty Energy, as his ...

This week, revisit what you know about Uranus, explore the far side of the moon, rediscover the famed fossil known as Lucy, and meet an otherworldly sea creature.

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

Scientists are reconsidering old information about Uranus. NPR's Scott Simon explains the problem with photos taken of the ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back new, eye-catching images of Jupiter, capturing intricate views of the planet's turbulent atmosphere as well as one of its lesser-known moons. On Oct. 23, the ...

The “lights will go out’’ under a wind, solar, hydro model where all coal power is closed, the final day of a parliamentary ...

To many, the Nullarbor Plain is a flat and featureless landscape – desolate, sunbaked and windblown. The ideal spot, you might think, to build enormous wind and solar farms far from outraged ...

The spacecraft Juno just finished its 66th trip around Jupiter, sending back some of the highest-resolution images we’ve seen ...

China produces more clean energy than any other country. Now it's rolling out an ultra-high-voltage grid to match – will its ...