Stars are far from calm entities. They can erupt in spectacular bursts of energy that disrupt the space around them, and ...

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 ...

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

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

In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...

For over half a billion years, Earth’s magnetic field has risen and fallen in sync with oxygen levels in the atmosphere, and scientists are finally uncovering why. A NASA-led study reveals a striking ...

By studying it, scientists hope to get a better understanding of how our planet's atmosphere evolved and how it behaves today. The researchers published their findings Aug. 28 in the journal Nature.

If you looked at the churning clouds near Jupiter’s pole, they appear like ocean currents on Earth — as if you’re looking at ...

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

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

“We find that both exhibit strong linearly increasing trends, coupled with a large surge in magnitude between 330 and 220 ...

The discovery of the exoplanet, a super-Earth called Kepler-735c, is all down to something called transit timing variations, ...