Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

With findings on Earth’s polar extremes and its innermost core, scientists shaped how we look at the planet in 2025 in ...

Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a dramatic planetary breakup.

University of California, Irvine Generally, scientists agree that the chances of our planet being the only one in the universe that hosts life is highly improbable. And yet, up to this point, despite ...

Deep beneath our feet, something extraordinary is happening. Scientists have discovered that changes in Earth's core are ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

Hubble reveals the largest planet-forming disk ever seen, Dracula's Chivito, showing a chaotic and uneven environment around ...

When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers ...

P erihelion – or the Earth's closest approach to our host star – will take place on January 3, 2026. At this point, our ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

What seemed like new planets around Fomalhaut were actually expanding dust clouds from violent planetary collisions seen by Hubble.

You have probably seen the images of the surface of Mars, beamed back by NASA's rovers. What if there were a time machine ...