A recent study in Icarus suggests a wandering star could disrupt our solar system. Simulations reveal that a star passing ...

New research says that Earth could be ejected from our solar system if a passing star was to come close enough.

Passing stars could trigger instability across the solar system, resulting in Earth being hauled out of its orbit.

02/15/2023 By Brooke Coupal. Ericka Boudreau ’20, ’22 is on her way to becoming a triple River Hawk. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UMass Lowell in environmental science with a ...

Rockström is a research professor in earth system science at University Potsdam, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and co-founder of the Planetary Guardians. The ...

Every breath we take in contains 21% oxygen, the gas that makes life on Earth possible. Oxygen, in its combined oxide state, ...

So, while Earth will eventually leave the solar system one way or another, it's not something we will have to worry about for a few billion years yet. Probably. Originally published on Live Science.

(Learn About Precambrian Time). Scientists discuss the ordinary rocks found on Earth’s surface that are special, rare, or nonexistent elsewhere in the solar system—based on our current knowledge.

JERRY MEEHL: Well, when you talk about Earth system prediction, you have to go back to the 1980s, really. And that’s when we started using these, what we call Earth system models, or climate models.

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

The combination of these factors could explain why Earth is the only planet known to exhibit plate tectonics today. In a 2022 study, Collins and his colleagues found that Jupiter's icy moon Europa ...