With findings on Earth’s polar extremes and its innermost core, scientists shaped how we look at the planet in 2025 in ...

When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy. They confirmed the existence of a rocky planet, called a "super-Earth," that's some six times as massive as Earth. While the world HD 20794 d is ...

Where did all the water come from? Water, water everywhere. It covers 70 percent of Earth’s surface and earns it the nickname “the blue planet.” And yet… where did it come from? How is it so abundant ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my ...

— -- Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar system whose size and distance from its own star put it in the "habitable" zone and make for a surface ...

University of California, Irvine Generally, scientists agree that the chances of our planet being the only one in the universe that hosts life is highly improbable. And yet, up to this point, despite ...

In a landmark achievement, the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet. About the same mass as Saturn, it was found in a star system about 111 light-years distant. It’s also the ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

Ah, Earth. We may not think about our planet on a day-to-day basis, but the world we live in is a pretty interesting place. The third rock from the Sun—and to this day, the only one with known ...

Astronomers photographed a baby planet, WISPIT 2b, during its formation process within a dusty ring around its star system.