Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention ...
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.
Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.
Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.
Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...
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 ...
Searching for technosignatures—signs of technology on a planet that we can see from afar—remains a difficult task. There are ...
Later in December, the 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet will get as close to Earth as it ever will. Here's what to know.
Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.
A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...