Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

The Aravalli Hills may appear low and worn today, but they represent one of the oldest surviving mountain systems on Earth.

Humans have long imagined life on Mars, but what if the red planet actually delivered life to Earth in the first place?

How life begins remains an unsolved question. One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have ...

The answer is as obvious as it seems – the Earth looks flat when you're standing on it, not cone-shaped. Visual evidence ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

In collisions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, hotter than the Sun’s core by a staggering margin, scientists have finally ...

Deep beneath our feet, far beyond the reach of any drill, new research suggests that Earth’s center is far more intricate ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

New research shows potatoes evolved from tomatoes through ancient plant mixing that created underground tubers.

With findings on Earth’s polar extremes and its innermost core, scientists shaped how we look at the planet in 2025 in surprising and fascinating ways.