New evidence from Greenland: Humans, it seems, are less guilty of driving the ice age megafauna to extinction than previously thought.

Are we heading towards a new Grand Solar Minimum? Will reduced solar activity be able to dampen or even offset the global warming trend?

In the outskirts of the solar system, beyond Neptune, a surprisingly diverse world of icy celestial bodies, spearheaded by Pluto, is looming.

A whole armada of telescopes has recently been focusing on the nearby TRAPPIST-1 planetary system. Our cosmic backyard is taking shape.

The field of ocean worlds has exploded in recent years, with the Galileo mission’s detections of subsurface oceans at Jovian moons...

Twenty-two years ago, after completing a few nights of observations at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence in France...

Are we alone? Ancient astronomers across the continents knew the existence of five Solar System planets visible to the naked...