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

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

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

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

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

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?

"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 ...

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

A mini moon that will bid farewell to Earth soon may in fact be a small hunk of the big moon — the one that has loomed far ...

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

Finding evidence for the first life ever to emerge on planet earth is a long, tough slog. But oddly enough, real answers may ultimately come from Mars.