A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

A fluffy, Jupiter-sized planet may be triggering deadly flares from its star, leading to the slow destruction of its own atmosphere.

The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

The molten rock was hot enough to melt the surrounding rocks and release massive amounts of carbon dioxide into Earth's ...

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

"NWA 16788 is a discovery of extraordinary significance — the largest Martian meteorite ever found on Earth, and the most ...

They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...

Faint booms from space help track incoming debris. But the path matters more than you think. Earth gains a little mass each ...

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

Earth's climate is changing faster than expected, due to growing imbalance in the planet's energy budget, according to new ...