Scientists may have discovered an atmosphere on a distant planet. Astronomers at NASA used the James Webb Space Telescope to ...

The earth’s climate has changed a lot over 4.5 billion years. Before human beings even existed, the earth experienced at least five Ice Ages and warmings due to small changes in its orbit. Since the ...

Where did all the water come from? Water, water everywhere. It covers 70 percent of Earth’s surface and earns it the nickname “the blue planet.” And yet… where did it come from? How is it so abundant ...

A FIERY hell-world that would instantly roast visitors alive has a vast lava ocean – and may be packed with rare gems. The ...

For nearly four years, NASA's Kepler spacecraft whisked through space, surveying our corner of the galaxy. It monitored more than 150,000 stars, looking for planets about the size of Earth that ...

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Earth is our home planet, and it's the only place in the universe where we know for certain that life exists. Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of gas and dust squished ...

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...

Astronomers have gotten a sneak peek at what could be Earth's ultimate fate in about 5 billion years when the sun reaches the end of its life and engulfs the solar system's inner planets – including ...

The vast universe is filled with strange and mysterious phenomena, from quasars and black holes to the Boötes void. One bizarre element in space is rogue planets, worlds just like our own, untethered ...

An image that purportedly depicted the Earth and sun recently began circulating on social media. "Earth and the sun caught in a single photo," reads a January 6 Facebook post. "It's so beautiful." ...