A fifth planet has been detected within the habitable zone of a neighboring star, where conditions could perhaps support ...

From donut planets to cube shaped worlds, the shape of Earth could completely transform how we live, breathe, and survive.

This incredible image, featuring flashing Starlink satellites and Earth's glowing atmosphere, was captured over the Pacific ...

Astronomers have likely witnessed a planet forming in real time, seen inside a spiral arm of the HD 135344B protoplanetary ...

In the 1950s, Stanley Miller and Nobel laureate Harold Urey conducted experiments at the University of Chicago in which they ...

Earth is spinning faster this summer, making the days marginally shorter and attracting the attention of scientists and ...

Early risers will get a rare opportunity to see something extraordinary in the early hours of July 18 — the dark shadow of ...

Earth’s Rotation Is Speeding Up This Summer—but Just for 3 Days Our planet is going to spin a little faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, thanks to the moon’s distance from the equator.

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest? New research suggests they are.

Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a piece of Mercury. Until, just maybe, now.

Regardless of Musk's ambitions, leaving Planet Simple demands more than a rocket: We need a paradigm shift in how we understand our relationship with complex systems.

Earth is no longer at risk of a direct collision with the asteroid 2024 YR4, but an impact on the moon in 2032 could send debris hurtling towards our planet that could take out orbiting satellites ...