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

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 ...

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 ...

FIFA reveals the Club World Cup trophy, featuring 'icons and images that capture important football references, such as when ...

Occasionally, during explosions called coronal mass ejections, the Sun releases charged particles that speed across the solar ...

The researchers revealed that Uranus’s protective magnetic field was distorted, and seemed wonky and weak, being squashed and ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...