An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

Sixty-six million years ago, Earth was a tropical greenhouse. Today, it's an ice-capped world. And an international team of experts led by the University of Southampton think they know why. Their new ...

The cycling of water within Earth's interior regulates plate tectonics, volcanism, ocean volume, and climate stability, ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

A Pew Research poll shows partisan split over U.S. scientific leadership, with Democrats far more concerned about losing ground than Republicans.

It was quite a leap. Conspiracy theorists are being brought back down to Earth after NASA scientists debunked a wild claim ...

Alchemy is no longer a myth. See how scientists turned lead to gold by recreating Big Bang conditions on Earth and why this ...

Falling space junk is becoming a real-world hazard, and scientists have found a clever new way to track it using instruments ...

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

The object dubbed Earth's "second moon" is actually a quasi-satellite that's accompanied the planet since 1957 — not a true ...