As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

We can get an idea of how planets appear through a planet parade, but have you ever wondered how our home planet, Earth, looks from other planets in our solar system?Let's take a cosmic journey to ...

A new study upends that belief, proposing that human evolution was merely a natural planetary process that can and likely has occurred on other Earth-like planets. It’s a common belief among ...

For now, life thrives on our oxygen-rich planet. But Earth’s atmosphere won’t always be so welcoming. In fact, scientists ...

The enchanting dunescape stretches over 43 miles (70 km) along the coast and over 30 miles (50 km) inland. Lençois translates as "bedsheets" in Portuguese and refers to the rolling white dunes that ...

For a long time, scientists thought the Earth's inner core was a solid ball of metal, sort of like a planet within a planet ...

Researchers from Penn State University proposed in a new academic paper that human-like lifeforms could arise as a logical consequence of a planet’s development — contradicting the long-held “hard ...

Some researchers now propose that these irregularities could indicate the presence of an undiscovered Earth-like planet. The Kuiper Belt extends from approximately 50 astronomical units (AU ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

An international team of scientists has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth—a planet larger than Earth but smaller than ...

The research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.

There are many places on Earth so weird they make you feel like you're on another planet. . | Credit: Left to right: Wysiati, WanRu Chen, Ropelato Photography; EarthScapes, jp2pix.com, all via ...