SpaceX is prioritising a self-sustaining Moon city, citing faster launch cycles and a sub-10-year timeline, compared with 20+ ...

A new candidate exoplanet appears to almost uncanny similarities to Earth — but may differ in at least one major way.

NASA is edging toward a once‑in‑a‑generation journey to the solar system’s ice giants, a twin push to Uranus and Neptune that ...

SpaceX's Starship rocket, due to launch in 2026 from Florida, is key to deploying satellites for orbital data centers needed ...

Even with nearly 10,000 active Starlink satellites in orbit and the OneWeb constellation of 650 satellites, solid Internet ...

Ancient sediments reveal how rapid warming collapsed Arctic forests in centuries, triggering fires, erosion, and long-lasting ...

Today, an estimated 2.2 billion people still have either limited or no access to the internet, largely because they live in ...

Scientists trekked across Icelandic lava flows that served as stand-ins for Venus’s volcanic landscapes, testing tools and ...

Saturn's icy rings, first observed in 1610, span 282,000 km and are 10-100m thick. Voyager 1 discovered Jupiter's faint, dusty rings in 1979, extending ~226,000 km. Voyager 2 found Neptune's 5 rings + ...

Snapshots from six computer simulations illustrating the distinct tectonic regimes of terrestrial planets, including the newly discovered “episodic-squishy lid” regime. This framework provides a new ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of the 'giant impact' between Earth and the proto-planet Theia. New research ...

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...