The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

The experiment, called Auroral Waves Excited by Substorm Onset Magnetic Events, or AWESOME, is led by researchers from the ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published ...

It seems as if Earth's atmosphere is incredibly thin, wrapped tightly around our planet. In fact, the atmosphere consists of multiple layers, with some scientists of the opinion that the atmosphere ...

Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...

According to scientists, this ambipolar electric field is thought to be just as crucial to Earth as both gravity and ...

Not having an atmosphere, which traps important gases like oxygen and water vapor, may render a planet uninhabitable, even if it were otherwise an Earth doppelganger. "Our Sun’s activity doesn ...

For the first time on a global scale, 20 years of observations on Mars have been condensed into a single study led by ...

Auroras are possible over the U.S. tonight (March 25) as a "moderate" geomagnetic storm hits Earth. UPDATE: The Northern ...