How do they differ from the ocean? A geophysicist breaks it down for us. An asteroid is going to circle our planet for two months this autumn before going on its way. A facility near the Icelandic ...

And the science is clear: the patient, our home planet earth, is in critical condition. If we continue on this path, human health and wellbeing, economic prosperity, social stability, and equality ...

The newly-discovered planet – called Barnard b – has at least half the mass of Venus and on it a year lasts slightly more than three Earth days. The findings also suggest there may be three ...

Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star. By Jonathan O’Callaghan In six billion years the sun ...

The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the ... who looks for microlensing events caused by free-floating stellar-mass black holes in the Milky Way. The discovery is ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a glimpse of what may be in store for Earth billions of years from now ...