Around 4.6 billion years ago, a vast cloud of gas and dust called a molecular cloud drifted through the Milky Way. Composed ...

The origins in question, researchers believe, could be the BLOBS found deep within the Earth. These mysterious structures ...

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

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

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, ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Scientists anticipate that Earth's rotation will quicken enough to create three shorter days between July and August, ...