Bruce Dorminey

A trail after a meteorite exploded in the sky over Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation February 15, 2013 getty

MOUNT SHARP, MARS - JANUARY 2015: In this handout provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS This ... [+] self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

Finding evidence for the first life ever to emerge on planet earth is a long, tough slog. But oddly enough, real answers may ultimately come from Mars.

Long underappreciated, magnetism itself may have given our solar system the architecture needed for habitability. A team at the University of Oxford is investigating how.

A contemporary sculpture near the beach at Durres, Albania Bruce Dorminey

Extrasolar gas giant planets are a necessary stop on the roading to finding life elsewhere in the cosmos. Here's why we need to understand their atmospheres.

Why planetary scientists think advanced aliens will turn to nuclear fusion to meet their massive energy needs. Here’s how we might spot them.

Part of the crew of the 1924 Round-the-World Tour check out the Douglas World Cruiser on the first ... [+] round of the world flight in March, 1924. (Photo by © Museum of Flight/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Fantasy Alien Exo Planet isolated galaxy space getty Complex life here on earth is largely thought to be possible due to the geophysics of earth's plate tectonics.