The planet’s long-standing natural “thermostat” is being outpaced by an feedback loop process involving algae, phosphorus, ...

Scientists have identified three Earth-sized planets orbiting two stars in the TOI-2267 system. Remarkably, planets transit ...

Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around ...

Back on planet Earth, and deep inside a pitch-black, sulfuric cave on the Albanian-Greek border, we reported on a study that ...

A massive, well-preserved impact crater has been uncovered in Guangdong, revealing the signature of a powerful meteorite ...

Explore the evolving rare earth hypothesis, highlighting new findings on habitability and the conditions for complex life on ...

In a new book, NASA astrobiologist Caleb Scharf says the fate of life on Earth may hinge on leaving our planet behind ...

The team discovered that the surface might contain liquid water, an essential ingredient for life. Astronomers from the University of California, Irvine have discovered a planet orbiting within the ...

In a surprising twist to our understanding of exoplanetary systems, astronomers have uncovered three Earth-sized planets ...

Astronomers first documented a CME in 1859, in conjunction with the widespread energy grid disruptions that later became ...

If you've ever wondered why we are here, then you can thank Jupiter for part of the answer. A new study from Rice University ...

Traditionally, scientists believed that the charge polarity of the magnetosphere at the equator and the poles was the same, ...