"We really need to understand the life cycle of a planetary body before we can do a lot with the exoplanet data." Only Earth has jigsaw-like tectonic plates that crash together and pull apart like ...

New planet is one of the best ever hopes for seeing alien life, scientists say - Less than 20 light years away, we could soon ...

Geophysicists have modeled how Earth’s magnetic field could form even when its core was fully liquid. By removing the effects ...

Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could ...

Imagine a planet much like Earth, except instead of green trees dotting its swaths of land, two species of flowers—black daisies and white daisies—are the dominant plant life. The flowers are ...

While researchers say they've found a potentially habitable planet, it'll take a new generation of telescopes to figure out ...

Study warns that humans may be driving Earth toward a sixth mass extinction. The research shows species loss, but the future ...

Think of it this way: only around 10,000 decently sized meteorites slam into Earth per year. Meanwhile, the planet is ...

The discovery of a new asteroid in the Earth's orbit around the sun has led to chatter that it's a second moon.

This is what’s known as the "Purple Earth Hypothesis", an idea first proposed by Professor Shiladitya DasSarma, molecular ...

Microbes high in Earth’s stratosphere produce pigments to protect them from UV light – so similar molecules could be ...