T he common consensus among Trekkies is that Nicholas Meyer's 1982 film "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" is the best of the 14 "Star Trek" movies to date. The point can be debate ...

TV presenter Sir David Attenborough has praised conservationist Dame Jane Goodall as a “tireless advocate” for chimpanzees and a “great champion of environmental protection” following her death aged ...

“Alien: Earth” brings the story of “Alien” to the third rock from the sun for the first time in the history of the entire ...

The timing of Earth's early formation points to a planet that started out dry. So, life’s essential building blocks arrived ...

New research suggests that planets outside our solar system contain far less surface water than scientists once believed.

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

New ways to measure thawing permafrost could help us understand its potential impacts on infrastructure, military outposts, ...

“Thanks to our results, we know that the proto-Earth was initially a dry rocky planet,” says Kruttasch. “It can therefore be ...