A newly-discovered planet named Enaiposha, GJ 1214 b, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a ...

How much do you know about our planet? Here are the amazing, odd and downright cool Earth facts scientists learned in the ...

Planet Earth is spinning a little faster today — resulting in one of the shortest days of the year. But the change will be so minuscule you won’t even notice. We’re talking even less time than the ...

If current scientific models are anything to go by, Earth, now 4.5 billion years old and halfway through its total lifespan, ...

Earth formed within such a precise “Goldilocks zone” for oxygen that a 5% change would have prevented life from emerging.

Even at a glance, the planets in our solar system are wildly diverse. Huge and small, airless and densely packed with ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up surprises. A new paper reveals the latest: a possible rocky planet slightly larger ...

Planet Labs is leveraging its Earth-imaging platform to become a provider of actionable artificial intelligence (AI)-powered analytics.

New research suggests scientists can search for life beyond Earth by studying patterns across many planets instead of relying ...

The perspective-changing "overview effect" is magnified when you're looking back at Earth from beyond the moon, according to ...

A new experimental study published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta reveals that Mercury’s sulfur-rich interior behaves in ...