These ancient cores may contain clues about an unexplained change in Earth’s glacial-interglacial cycles, and could shed ...

According to the paper laying out the research behind the discovery, "TOI-1846b is a super-Earth-sized planet, with a radius ...

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

New simulations reveal a hidden “ocean of fire” that once existed above Earth’s core, influencing the planet’s internal ...

For centuries, humanity believed that Earth was the center of the universe, a view championed by Aristotle and Ptolemy. But ...

"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...

New research has uncovered that the construction of water dams has shifted Earth's poles in subtle but important ways.

Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.

If this event marked our planet’s birth, that would make Earth somewhere between 4.4 billion and 4.52 billion years old. But determining a more specific age for our planet requires sifting ...