"Super-Earth" exoplanets may have an in-built way to protect themselves from harmful radiation, giving any potential life on such worlds a better chance of surviving, according to recent research.

Mars Sample Return campaign makes use of an armada of hardware to collect Martian soil, rock, and atmospheric specimens for return to Earth. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Now underway is a ...

In the clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, scientists wear suits and masks while working on the Mars 2020 rover to avoid contamination. Credit: NASA/JPL ...

This April 22 marks the 55th anniversary of Earth Day. The power of those 20 million voices that came out on the streets that first Earth Day led the United States to create the Environmental ...

For millennia humans have been inspired by the stars but this may soon be a thing of the past due to a significant increase in the numbers of satellites, potentially limiting our view of the night sky ...

A review of archives suggests that efforts to protect Earth from contamination by any organism brought back from the lunar surface were mostly for show. By Sarah Scoles When the astronauts of Apollo ...

Protecting Earth from any huge asteroid that might come our way is complicated. If you break the space rock into pieces, that could create a hellish rain of shrapnel. However, smashing something into ...

Last week I attended a community screening at St. Bede’s of “The Letter: A Message for our Earth.” My church had shown the film a month ago, and I’d been thinking about it ever since and welcomed the ...

Earth faces a growing 'ring of trash' as defunct satellites burn up, releasing harmful particles like aluminium oxide that could deplete the ozone layer. Scientists are exploring wooden satellites, ...