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.

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 ...

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 ...

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the ...

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

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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.

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 ...

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 ...