Instead of sending tourists to space, scientists have found a more practical use for the final frontier: growing better ...

SETI Institute In the News The SETI Institute continues to push the boundaries of space exploration and our understanding of ...

Climate-driven vegetation changes played a crucial role in shaping human history in the Indian subcontinent over the last ...

Tullis, born in Swedesboro, New Jersey, is survived by her sisters Mary Conway and Ellen Shelton; her nieces, Jessie and Kit ...

A diagram shows its orbit around Earth, the sun and several other planets nearer the sun in the Solar System. NASA tracks close approaches and calculates the odds of those space rocks ...

Growing up in Long Beach, California, his parents adhered to a creationist view of the universe. But young Koerner caught ...

A diagram shows its orbit around Earth, the sun and several other planets nearer the sun in the Solar System. NASA tracks ...

If was visible to the naked eye, "it would appear two to three times the size of the sun or moon to viewers on Earth," NASA explained ... is illustrated in this diagram," NASA explains, with ...

But there's something really weird about Venus. Though the hellish world has beautifully preserved impact craters on its ...

All of this is taken into account in a common type of diagram ... Earth and Mars would involve a trip directly through the sun, while spacecraft must of necessity move in orbit around the solar ...