Earth is home to some truly bizarre and breathtaking landscapes — here are 20 that look straight out of an alien world.

Without a juggernaut like “Avatar,” this year’s visual effects Oscar race is proving a competitive one, with VFX branch ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years away from Earth - and it's believed to ...

Astronomers aimed the Very Large Telescope in Chile at a nearby exoplanet and discovered jet stream winds blowing nearly 80 ...

Those, however, are a mere breeze compared to the jet-stream winds on a planet called WASP-127b. Astronomers have detected ...

the researchers were also able to make a more detailed weather map of the planet. Although it is subjected to extreme heating by being so close to its star, this alien world still has cooler ...

A TERRIFYING alien planet that “rains glass” lurks just 64.5 lightyears from Earth. Described as a “nightmare world” by Nasa, the giant exoplanet has staggeringly fast ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

Those, however, are a mere breeze compared to the jet-stream winds on a planet called WASP-127b. Astronomers have detected winds howling at about 20,500 miles (33,000 km) per hour on this large ...

In February 1995, a small research organisation known as the SETI Institute launched what was then the most comprehensive ...