Today, hundreds of thousands of species of flowering plants have officially been classified, and more are recorded each year.

Kepler-725c is roughly 2,472 light years from Earth, circling a G9V star in about 207.5 days. Its path brings it into a ...

Hybridized in 1948, these uncommon flowers command higher prices than traditional varieties due to their cross-pollination ...

Scientists have discovered a few thousand planetary nebulas in the Milky Way. Those include the Ring Nebula, aka NGC 6720 and Messier 57. With Webb, the researchers could see a compact dust cloud ...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

As astronomers study an exoplanet called K2-18b, conflicting research reveals how difficult it is to find evidence of life ...

With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very ...

From active geysers and hot springs to its diverse wildlife and stunning geological features like the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, the park is incredible. Plus, given that it is the oldest national ...

About 3.5 billion years ago, two of the planets that orbited the sun may have ... their collective heft rivaled Earth’s cache of life. Called methanogens, Mars’s microbes would have inhaled ...