A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft is due to start orbiting Mercury next year, but a recent flyby has captured breathtaking images of ...

It seems 2025 will have a strong start, too, with a planet parade just a few weeks into the new year. A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in the night sky at ...

As any well-informed person will know, Antarctica is an island continent at the southernmost part of our planet. People who believe the idea that the Earth is disc-shaped rather than round are ...

Astronomers studying a still-forming planet beyond our solar system have found that its chemical makeup doesn't fully match the swirling gas and dust disk from which it formed. The finding ...

This massive growth spurt has propelled solar from bit player to a sizeable chunk of the planet's energy mix. And it's taken less than two decades. A planet-wide solar boom has been beating ...

Most astronomers would love to find a planet, but Mike Brown may be the only one proud of having killed one. Thanks to his research, Pluto, the solar system’s ninth planet, was removed from the ...

Over the past several years my colleagues and I have been studying teasing in humans and great apes to figure out why—and when—this behavior evolved. Teasing exists in a gray area between play ...