The enchanting dunescape stretches over 43 miles (70 km) along the coast and over 30 miles (50 km) inland. Lençois translates ...

NASA's upcoming Pandora mission will complement the James Webb Space Telescope by making it easier to detect water in the ...

Curiosity, a set of NASA's robotic "eyes" on the Red Planet, recorded 16 minutes of so-called noctilucent clouds flying ...

THE search for alien life across our Solar System and beyond has so far kicked up nothing intelligent – let alone microbial.

Scientists studying Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, have discovered that its ocean forms layers that slow the upward movement ...

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...

Around a star just 20 light-years from the Solar System, astronomers have confirmed the existence of what might be a ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

Searching for life in alien oceans may be more difficult than scientists previously thought, even when we can sample these ...

Because this planet is relatively close to Earth and orbits a bright star, it is a perfect target for future telescopes.

A new study led by University College London (UCL) researchers suggests that unpredictable stars could be distorting our ...

The hardiest of the thermophiles that live in the hottest water are colorless ... according to Lonely Planet. The Danakil Depression, Ethiopia, is one of the most inhospitable and alien places ...