A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...

Potentially deadly comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new ...

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

Now, researchers suggest these mysteries could point to the existence of an undiscovered Earth-like planet. Decoding the ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

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.

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

2024 may be a record-shattering year of intense heat, not just for us humans, but also for our planet. In this very year, we ...

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a ...

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

A planetary magnetic field is produced by a geodynamo effect deep inside a planet. A planet like Earth has an iron-nickel ...

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