In the 30 years since the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, more than 6,000 planets outside our Solar System have been catalogued. Two modern-day explorers explain how.

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Photoshop CS6 Extended tutorial showing how to make a planet and other celestial spheres caught at the instant it explodes into a supernova.

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Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

Many planetary systems are born in slightly tilted protoplanetary disks, which would explain the misaligned orbits from the ...

Rising wildfire risk, shrinking snowpack, and shifting weather patterns are driving insurance costs up — or making coverage ...

The circle of nature isn’t always reflected in the circle of consumer products, too many of which take a one-way journey to ...

TerraCycle takes the items that local recycling centers cannot recycle, from razors to food wrappers to Swiffer pads. Here's ...

Yudkowsky and Soares are calling for international treaties akin to those aiming to prevent nuclear war. And if diplomacy ...