Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the ...

The research team’s review reveals how plastic pollution affects fundamental Earth systems, contributing to almost every ...

THE country has declared a boycott of next month’s UN climate summit, branding the global warming negotiations a “waste of ...

When a giant asteroid hit Earth around 66 million years ago, it created a massive disaster that wiped out the dinosaurs. But somehow, many mammals survived, and scientists have some ideas why. Unlike ...

Understanding how the Earth and moon formed is important for piecing together the history of the solar system and answering questions like how long planets take to form, what planets are made of, and ...

A trio of physicists, two with Coventry University, in the U.K., and the third with Laboratoire National des Champs ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk ...

It's the latest epic discovery in the game, with a player recently finding a strangely Earth-like planet. Since the Worlds ...

Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like planet lurking in the distant ... [+] Kuiper Belt, well past the orbit of Neptune (artistic illustration). There may be an ...

A distinctive blue and green image of Earth reveals our planet's most remarkable features. At 4.54 billion years old, our home world is a venerable object. But it was only with the arrival of the ...

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During the most critical month of the year, May, the Planet Earth Live team followed the lives of individual young animals growing up in the wild. They captured the incredible real life stories ...