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

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

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.

How would Xenomorphs even get to our pale blue dot? ‘Alien Earth’ is propped to show us exactly that, as well as the horror ...

assistant professor in Purdue’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. Their findings were published in ...

Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.

Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a ...

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

Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...