Astronomers have discovered a new Earth-like planet, orbiting a distant star 4,000 light years away in the constellation Sagittarius. This rocky planet, roughly the same size and mass as Earth ...

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...

A trailer for content arriving on Disney+ in 2025 includes Alien: Earth, the first TV series set in the Alien universe.

For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini ... But ATLAS reports this new mini-moon is likely to be a real asteroid, which is simply defined as a small, rocky object ...

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A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us. You can see a new moon when it crosses the face of the sun during a solar eclipse.

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

As part of a new Disney+ preview video, 20th Century Studios has unveiled the first official footage from Noah Hawley's Alien ...

SpaceX recently shared a video taken from space that offers a stunning view of Earth as the ... provide a month of free access to the Starlink internet service to new and existing residential ...

“This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator,” said Liam Courtney-Davies, lead author of the new study and a postdoctoral ...

A new sunspot forming on the surface of the sun might be about to fling solar flares in our direction. The sunspot, named 3856, is facing Earth and has developed a volatile type of magnetic field ...