The plot is cast in the time-proven Hollywood adventure tradition. A space explorer from Earth (Charlton Heston) crash-lands on an unknown planet where apes rank higher than men on the evolutionary ...

When cinema audiences are discovered sauntering bowlegged down the city streets of Britain this summer, like John Wayne with an over-full nappy, Tim Burton's new Planet Of The Apes will almost ...

Daniel Apai receives funding for astrobiology research from NASA, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that ...

Six million years ago, those same geologic forces severed the connection between the Baja peninsula and the mainland, forming ...

The two gases - dimethyl sulfide, or DMS, and dimethyl disulfide, or DMDS - involved in Webb’s observations of the planet named K2-18 b are generated on Earth by living organisms, primarily ...

Skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere are in for a treat this week! The annual Lyrid meteor shower, one of the oldest known, will peak on the night of April 21st into the early morning of April ...

The vertical shows the fraction of star light absorbed in the planet's atmosphere due to molecules in its atmosphere. The data are shown in the yellow circles with the 1-sigma uncertainties.

Have scientists discovered aliens? Astronomers believe they have discovered the strongest signs of life on a distant ocean-covered planet far beyond our solar system. We hear from the co-author of ...

A police department in Massachusetts is celebrating a successful "raccoon rescue" made possible by a Good Samaritan and laundry detergent pods. On Monday, April 14, officers with the Holyoke ...

Wanna see a trick? Give us any topic and we can tie it back to the economy. At Planet Money, we explore the forces that shape our lives and bring you along for the ride. Don't just understand the ...