The world, dubbed GJ 251 c, sits 19.6 light-years from Earth and appears to be almost four times our planet’s mass — a “super ...

The planet, known as GJ 251c, orbits a red dwarf star 18.2 light-years away in the constellation of Gemini, the Twins. The ...

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.

Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could ...

While researchers say they've found a potentially habitable planet, it'll take a new generation of telescopes to figure out ...

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

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

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

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

More than a dozen of the world’s leading ocean science, philanthropic, and stakeholder organizations—led by the Woods Hole ...

The Hudson Bay peatlands in northern Canada, a 90-million-acre area stretching from northern Manitoba to Quebec, are a haven ...