Earthlings

Auroras could light up skies across swaths of the planet for the second night in a row on Saturday, after already dazzling Earthlings from the United States to Tasmania to the Bahamas the day before.

Lunar Eclipse 2019: The moon is set to treat Earthlings with a partial lunar eclipse on the 50th anniversary of the day when mankind launched the first mission to set foot on it. A partial lunar eclipse or ardh chandra grahan will be visible in the skies on July 16-17.

Today is Mother's day. How many of you earthlings have bought a respectably fine present for the most special woman in your life? Normally, buying gifts for days like the mother's day is pretty much last minute like studying for final exams. But here's how you can make this mother's day different. By giving her presents that are different from the ...

Tucked inside a former factory boiler room in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood is a kitchen dedicated to the care and feeding of Martians - that is, Earthlings who might someday live in a colony on Mars. Although for some it will come as no surprise that this is happening in Brooklyn, that bastion of anything-goes food culture, the concept, coo...

If you grade earthlings on a cosmic curve, as recently hashed out by astrophysicists, we're at the head of the class.

Not to get too partisan or anything, but Jupiter's moons are probably some of the coolest worlds in the solar system. Two of its largest - Europa and Ganymede - likely contain subsurface oceans, providing tempting spots to go looking for life. But while potentially habitable waters may be especially intriguing to us earthlings, Jupiter's innermost ...

Monday's transit was the first since Nasa's Messenger mission to Mercury, which orbited the planet from 2011 to 2015.

India's Mars Mission, Mangalyaan, sent a special message to Earth on New Year. It was accompanied by a special New Year gift for "earthlings".

As earthlings in the US get ready to don Halloween costumes on October 31, asteroid 2015 TB145, dubbed the 'Great Pumpkin' in a reference to the holiday, will fly past the planet at a safe distance, NASA said.

While there is no one on Mars to answer the call, project organizers say that is beside the point.

Radio telescopes on Earth will beam 90,000 messages to Mars on Friday to commemorate the launch 50 years ago of the first robotic probe to visit the planet.

A comfortable, middle-class Parisian life may be the envy of many people, but Florence Porcel would give it all up to be among the first Earthlings to settle on Mars - even with no option of return.

Life on Earth was kick-started thanks to a key mineral deposited by a meteorite from Mars, according to a novel theory aired on Thursday.

Diehard doomsayers will be scurrying to the nearest shelter in fear of a Mayan prophecy of the world's end on Friday, but many more from Delhi to Sydney will ring in the date by partying like there's no tomorrow.

Auroras could light up skies across swaths of the planet for the second night in a row on Saturday, after already dazzling Earthlings from the United States to Tasmania to the Bahamas the day before.

Lunar Eclipse 2019: The moon is set to treat Earthlings with a partial lunar eclipse on the 50th anniversary of the day when mankind launched the first mission to set foot on it. A partial lunar eclipse or ardh chandra grahan will be visible in the skies on July 16-17.

Today is Mother's day. How many of you earthlings have bought a respectably fine present for the most special woman in your life? Normally, buying gifts for days like the mother's day is pretty much last minute like studying for final exams. But here's how you can make this mother's day different. By giving her presents that are different from the ...

Tucked inside a former factory boiler room in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood is a kitchen dedicated to the care and feeding of Martians - that is, Earthlings who might someday live in a colony on Mars. Although for some it will come as no surprise that this is happening in Brooklyn, that bastion of anything-goes food culture, the concept, coo...

If you grade earthlings on a cosmic curve, as recently hashed out by astrophysicists, we're at the head of the class.

Not to get too partisan or anything, but Jupiter's moons are probably some of the coolest worlds in the solar system. Two of its largest - Europa and Ganymede - likely contain subsurface oceans, providing tempting spots to go looking for life. But while potentially habitable waters may be especially intriguing to us earthlings, Jupiter's innermost ...

Monday's transit was the first since Nasa's Messenger mission to Mercury, which orbited the planet from 2011 to 2015.

India's Mars Mission, Mangalyaan, sent a special message to Earth on New Year. It was accompanied by a special New Year gift for "earthlings".

As earthlings in the US get ready to don Halloween costumes on October 31, asteroid 2015 TB145, dubbed the 'Great Pumpkin' in a reference to the holiday, will fly past the planet at a safe distance, NASA said.

While there is no one on Mars to answer the call, project organizers say that is beside the point.

Radio telescopes on Earth will beam 90,000 messages to Mars on Friday to commemorate the launch 50 years ago of the first robotic probe to visit the planet.

A comfortable, middle-class Parisian life may be the envy of many people, but Florence Porcel would give it all up to be among the first Earthlings to settle on Mars - even with no option of return.

Life on Earth was kick-started thanks to a key mineral deposited by a meteorite from Mars, according to a novel theory aired on Thursday.

Diehard doomsayers will be scurrying to the nearest shelter in fear of a Mayan prophecy of the world's end on Friday, but many more from Delhi to Sydney will ring in the date by partying like there's no tomorrow.