Japanese researchers developed a model to simulate early Earth's atmosphere, revealing how UV radiation and hydrocarbons ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, astronomers describe the youngest transiting planet ever found. It’s ...

Assuming intelligent aliens have used AI for thousands or even millions of years, experts think it may have grown to ...

The magnetic North Pole is on a journey toward Russia in a way that has not been seen before. The British Geological Survey ...

"The moon is sort of like Earth's attic in terms of preserving the impact records; it's the only place where we can get Earth ...

The clearest picture yet of our “last universal common ancestor” suggests it was a relatively complex organism living 4.2 ...

When stars explode as supernovas, they can cause serious cosmic carnage. Is Earth in any danger from any nearby stars?

A large planet has been spotted orbiting a dwarf star that is just 3 million years old, offering possible clues to how the ...

A newly discovered baby exoplanet called IRAS 04125+2902 b is challenging our current understanding of planet formation.

Learn about the rapid melting of the last Ice Age and how it led to the era of the 'plumeworld ocean' on Earth.

A supercomputer simulation of iron and carbon atoms in Earth’s inner core may explain how a molten ball at the centre of our ...