In a secluded corner of the Lynx constellation, just 18 light-years from our planet, astronomers have found a stunning ...

The view of Earth from space is famously familiar—bright blue ocean, swirling gyres of white clouds, touches of terrestrial ...

A newly discovered planet sits in the habitable zone of its star, where temperatures are right for liquid water if the ...

When the balance in reflectivity shifts, “the whole circulation of the climate will shift in order to transport energy from ...

An international team of researches has announced the discovery of a super-Earth exoplanet (designated GJ 251 c) situated in ...

New NASA research using supercomputers shows Earth's habitability is threatened sooner than thought. Rising solar radiation ...

Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, located about ...

The ocean's smallest engineers, calcifying plankton, quietly regulate Earth's thermostat by capturing and cycling carbon.

Earth' orbiting within its star's habitable zone, just 20 light-years from Earth, could host extraterrestrial life.

"The range of possible outcomes is a lot wider than anybody has appreciated until now." ...

Microbes high in Earth’s stratosphere produce pigments to protect them from UV light – so similar molecules could be ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...