Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.
Nothing is more precious than our planet, and we must cool it fast. Scientists say this can be done by decorating the sky with diamonds.
In Atlas of a Threatened Planet, Esther Gonstalla uses easy-to-understand infographics to explain the climate and ...
The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.
Cataclysmic cosmic collisions may have benefited the evolution of primitive organisms early in Earth's history, a study says.
Chinese lunar and Martian missions unveiled far-side Moon secrets, Mars' climate shifts, and unique lunar soil compositions, ...
Jupiter, which currently gleams from within the sparkling winter constellation Taurus, reaches opposition with the sun just a ...
A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.
Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...
"If Jupiter doesn’t have a surface, what does it have? " ...
(Illustration by Mark Garlick/Handout ... Worst case scenario: A ‘planet killer’ slams into Earth, what next? As for what would happen if a planet-destroying asteroid does hit Earth, Dr ...
The giant planet J1407b has been a weird space mystery since its discovery in 2010. But a new study revealed something about the planet that may help explain at least part of its weirdness: a ...