A rocky world orbiting inside the habitable zone of a nearby red dwarf has drawn interest from astronomers. The exoplanet ...

A new study gives fresh insight into what happens to planets after the death of their star. The post Science reveals fate of ...

Major clues to the origins of our planet—and life itself—are locked inside some three billion-year-old volcanic rocks from ...

Earth gains thousands of tonnes of space dust every year, yet scientists say it may still be losing weight. So, is our planet ...

An Aramaic inscription found at Zerzevan Castle documents the closure of a Mithras temple. This ancient text provides rare ...

Every July, Earth reaches a point in its orbit called aphelion, when our planet is at its farthest distance from the sun.

The planet should not have survived the star's red giant phase—which sees a star balloon to more than 100 times its original ...

Astronomers have sharply revised down the mass of nearby super Earth GJ 3378b, dramatically improving its prospects as a ...

Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory, astronomers have taken a closer look at a nearby exoplanet and ...

The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make ...

Dear EarthTalk: Since the food we eat is an important environmental factor in our health, what foods are the healthiest for ...

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