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're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

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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Snagged by Earth's gravity during an unusually close approach, this "mini-moon" is predicted to orbit our planet for just 57 ...

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

But from the ashes survivors arose—our mammalian ancestors—beginning a vibrant new era in Earth’s history ... and ocean alike contained almost no free oxygen—the element that now makes ...

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 ...