Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...

These “miniature trails of destruction,” as the researchers call them, are caused by high-energy particles bouncing off the ...

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, offering a glimpse into our ...

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

A supposedly stable belt of radiation 7000 km above the Earth’s surface may in fact be producing damaging bursts of ...

The European Southern Observatory captured a Halloween-themed image of the Dark Wolf Nebula, a hauntingly dense cloud of ...

Only a few weeks ago, massive precipitation produced by the storm “Boris” led to chaos and flooding in Central and Eastern ...

From the column: "One of the more notable challenges I faced as (Duluth's) city attorney was shutting down the Last Place on ...

Satellites have long been used to track plastic in the ocean but have struggled to accurately spot pollution against a sandy ...

China has moved up its timeline for bringing Mars samples to Earth, aiming to do so as early as 2028 — long before the U.S. is slated to achieve this same ambitious goal.