Space travel sounds unbelievably cool, but most of us won’t ever have the opportunity to check out alien planets. Lucky for ...

Namib Desert features red dunes and Deadvlei's ancient trees, evoking a Martian landscape against a blue sky. Egypt's White Desert features surreal white chalk formations shaped by wind and sand, ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits. It was also the start of a whirlwind of discovery.

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

Professor Brian Cox journeys to the dramatic, volcanic worlds of the solar system and explores alien landscapes bursting with fire and ice. There are planets and moons covered in volcanoes, with ...

Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope 'Kepler' to discover that small and large worlds have very different upbringings. The team found that larger planets on non ...

“It’s a small world but I wouldn’t want to have to paint it,” American comic Steven Wright often quipped. Some though have turned that on its head to bring us visions of landscapes beyond Earth – ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...