The new dataset, published in Earth System Science Data by 16 scientists, shows a significantly cooler Earth from the late ...

The idea that Mars could affect Earth’s climate sounds dramatic, since climate change is usually linked to cars, factories, ...

The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy. They confirmed the existence of a rocky planet, called a "super-Earth," that's some six times as massive as Earth. While the world HD 20794 d is ...

University of California, Irvine Generally, scientists agree that the chances of our planet being the only one in the ...

Deep inside Earth, researchers see signs that the solid inner core may be arranged in multiple chemical layers far below.

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

Right now, as a passenger on planet Earth, you’re zooming through space at incredible speeds. But why can't you feel it?

Ah, Earth. We may not think about our planet on a day-to-day basis, but the world we live in is a pretty interesting place. The third rock from the Sun—and to this day, the only one with known ...

Fact of the Day: In today’s series of daily facts, we will discuss and explore the Earth, a planet formed by water, rock, air, and time. Earth is not one of the largest planets in our solar system, ...

In the Star Wars movies fictional planets are covered with forests, oceans, deserts, and volcanoes. But new models from a team of MIT, NASA, and Carnegie scientists begin to describe an even wider ...