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.

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

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

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

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.

Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.

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

The new study suggests that the planet experienced a swift and intense melting phase following the last global ice age. At ...

Since its inception on April 29, 1999, NASA's Earth Observatory (EO) has published over 18,000 image-driven stories, ...

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

Earth's city lights streak by in this long-exposure photo taken by NASA astronaut Don Pettit on Oct. 24, 2024. The green glow ...

Buried Alive: Carbon Dioxide Release from Magma Deep Beneath Ancient Volcanoes Was a Hidden Driver of Earth's Past Climate Oct. 30, 2024 — A team discovered that, contrary to present scientific ...