If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age.
Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...
Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.
Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...
Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention of scientists. This planet orbits the star within the "Goldilocks zone"—a ...
Later in December, the 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet will get as close to Earth as it ever will. Here's what to know.
Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.
Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.
A newly identified tectonic "regime" may rewrite our understanding of how rocky worlds evolve, scientists report in a new ...
Searching for technosignatures—signs of technology on a planet that we can see from afar—remains a difficult task. There are ...
On Monday, Duncan Watson-Parris closed his welcoming remarks on the first meeting of the GAIA Initiative with an inviting flyover video of the Scripps campus.But even some among the artificial ...