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

It's called Kamo’oalewa and only passes Earth every few decades ...

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

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the ...

Satellite imagery provides a unique perspective on our planet and can encompass a wide range of different scientific ...

When the sun dies, it will become hundreds of times its current size and engulf the innermost planets. Earth may escape this ...

Apart from the sun, its planets and their moons, our solar system has vast amounts of space rocks—fragments left over from the formation of the inner planets. A large concentration of asteroids forms ...

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

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

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. On April 22, 2025, the world celebrated the 55th anniversary ...