Since Edward Burtynsky’s birth in Ontario, Canada, in 1955, the Earth’s population has roughly tripled, and its economy has ...

In a “Jurassic Park”-esque fashion, “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson and the Texas-based biotech company Colossal ...

When NASA launched the Kepler Space Telescope in 2009, its mission was clear: to explore the stars and uncover distant ...

Such changes would make it difficult for life as we know it to survive on Earth. The increased heat and radiation would ...

"Dark matter could be captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and ...

Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a ...

Solar flares can reshape exoplanet atmospheres within days, affecting temperature, winds, and potential habitability.

As Jaws celebrates its 50th anniversary, Science News explores the vast range of shark sizes, from megaladon to the dwarf lanternshark.

Astronomers have discovered the "missing link" connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar ...

The future of yellow dwarf stars, like our sun, is determined almost entirely by their mass. The most massive stars, about eight to 12 times heftier than the sun, can explode as supernovae ...

Although audiences are led through the story of Middle-earth by Frodo, a Hobbit, The Lord of the Ringscomprises a few other ...

Wolf 359, a red dwarf star just 7.8 light-years away, could host planets, but extreme X-ray and ultraviolet radiation make habitability difficult. Only planets far from the star, with thick greenhouse ...