A newly discovered warp in the outer Solar System may have been created by a small, rocky world, much closer to the Sun than ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth ...

The bold question-askers at What If investigate what would happen if the sun were smaller than Earth. Brewers fan loses job ...

Imagine a planet much like Earth, except instead of green trees dotting its swaths of land, two species of flowers—black daisies and white daisies—are the dominant plant life. The flowers are ...

The moon's influence is huge, both for human civilization and life as a whole. Its destruction would have catastrophic ...

Learn about the chemical signature that may be the first evidence to come from proto Earth, the unruly first phrase of our ...

Think of it this way: only around 10,000 decently sized meteorites slam into Earth per year. Meanwhile, the planet is ...

PoET and ESPRESSO telescopes are new tools that will eliminate stellar noise and detect Earth-like planets around Sun-like ...

The iron-rich core at the centre of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth’s evolution. The core not only powers the ...

This is what’s known as the "Purple Earth Hypothesis", an idea first proposed by Professor Shiladitya DasSarma, molecular ...

Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...