Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.

Potentially deadly comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...

Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...

Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

Global warming is a global issue and our resilience to its effects should be treated as such, says David Grandorge ...

China's space agency has opened up a first round of applications for researchers to borrow its Chang'e 6 lunar far side ...

2024 may be a record-shattering year of intense heat, not just for us humans, but also for our planet. In this very year, we ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

A trio of physicists, two with Coventry University, in the U.K., and the third with Laboratoire National des Champs ...