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

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

The newly discovered world is called GJ 251c and it is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away.

What will the world look like in 2100? This question is central to a new free online game called FutureGuessr. Launched in ...

The world, dubbed GJ 251 c, sits 19.6 light-years from Earth and appears to be almost four times our planet’s mass — a “super ...

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

New NASA research using supercomputers shows Earth's habitability is threatened sooner than thought. Rising solar radiation ...

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

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

In a discovery that could rewrite what we know about where water comes from and the building blocks of life in the solar ...

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

"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 ...