The goal was planetary defense — protecting our planet from the kind of wayward ... Who could have imagined such a thing? Well, science fiction writers did. “Crashing big things into celestial ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to map the atmosphere of WASP-121b - also known as Tylos - in 3D and what they found sounds like something out of science fiction. The planet is 900 ...

In this weekly series, Life's Little Mysteries rates the plausibility of popular science fiction concepts. Warning: Some spoilers ahead! IE 11 is not supported.

“I mostly just hope it's real.” Planets around binary stars were first predicted by science fiction before it became science reality. The universe is really interesting and there's lots of ...

but on all planets. It feels like something out of science fiction,” said Julia Victoria Seidel, a researcher at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile and lead author of the study ...

but on all planets. It feels like something out of science fiction,” says Julia Victoria Seidel, a researcher at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile and lead author of the study ...

Yale Planetary Solutions is a university initiative that unites leadership and experts across campus, and across disciplines, to advance solutions to the greatest environmental challenges facing the ...