The new dataset, published in Earth System Science Data by 16 scientists, shows a significantly cooler Earth from the late ...

The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...

Astronomers have identified the clearest signs yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet outside our Solar System, marking a ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy. They confirmed the existence of a rocky planet, called a "super-Earth," that's some six times as massive as Earth. While the world HD 20794 d is ...

Right now, as a passenger on planet Earth, you’re zooming through space at incredible speeds. But why can't you feel it?

Webb Telescope detects an atmosphere on TOI-561 b, a scorching rocky planet once thought too small and hot to hold onto its ...

Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention ...

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

Ah, Earth. We may not think about our planet on a day-to-day basis, but the world we live in is a pretty interesting place. The third rock from the Sun—and to this day, the only one with known ...

Fact of the Day: In today’s series of daily facts, we will discuss and explore the Earth, a planet formed by water, rock, air, and time. Earth is not one of the largest planets in our solar system, ...

Recent astronomical observations have revealed a startling reality: aging stars are far more destructive to their orbiting planets than previously thought. This discovery, which challenges ...