Scientists have found evidence of an existing body of liquid water on Mars. What they believe to be an underground lake sits under the red planet's south polar ice cap, and is about 20km (12 miles) ...

For as long as mankind has walked the earth, the human race has been predicting when and how the world will end. A Russian theoretical physicist has predicted a grim future for our civilization ...

Calling all planets that orbit around bright, nearby stars: NASA's new Tess spacecraft is looking to do a head count. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — Tess for short — is embarking ...

The Milky Way's neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda, was formed in a colossal crash between two smaller star systems no more than 3 billion years ago when Earth already existed, researchers suggest. ...

Stone carvings discovered in the Himalayan territory of Kashmir may represent the first ever depiction of a dying star and the oldest sky chart in human history, according to Indian scientists’ ...

Scientists have discovered ice masses that could potentially provide clean drinkable water for its future visitors, and have found it hidden just below the surface of Mars. In an article published ...

British-born astronomer Caleb Sharf has come up with a theory which suggests that planets with a biosphere usually rotate faster than lifeless celestial bodies of similar age and size. ...

Physicists from Moscow's Steklov Institute of Mathematics have come up with a testable theory on how matter behaves inside a black hole. The researchers' work, published in the September ...

The prehistoric origins of life on Earth may have begun in space, a new study published in the Journal of Chemical Physics suggests. Researchers at the University of Sherbrooke in Canada created a ...

International group of scientists has recently discovered the oldest and most distant supermassive black hole ever, which they hope will help solve the mystery of their origins. ...

If there are any intelligent extraterrestrials in the universe, they will be getting a message from humans years from now. Head of the organization that has sent a transmission to an exoplanet ...

European astronomers with the Super Wide Angle Search for Planets (SuperWASP) consortium of planet hunters have detected three new gas giant alien worlds. The SuperWASP is an international effort ...

A mysterious event mentioned in the Bible was actually the oldest solar eclipse ever recorded, a new Cambridge study has found. The revelation may help to rewrite the dates of Egyptian pharaohs, ...

A study of the surface of Earth’s moon has found an unlikely candidate for the best spot to build a permanent human settlement: a lava tube, an underground tunnel carved by one of the moon’s ...

  “The ashes of your existence will fertilize the soil for the universe to follow.”  ― Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim Doomsday is big concern for astronomers and a favorite with fiction writers ...