A 2014 astronaut photo shows a pair of volcanic lakes appearing to stare up into space from the Chiltepe Peninsula of ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

A recently observed object called 2025 PN7 was found orbiting near the Earth. The quasi-moon is expected to accompany our planet in a similar orbit for 60 years.

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

TRAPPIST-1, a planetary system 40 light years from Earth, could host a planet with an atmosphere and liquid water, but astronomers can’t be certain just yet.

A study conducted on a near-Earth asteroid could call into question details we thought we knew about how our planet's oceans ...

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

We often wonder whether there are aliens on other planets but what if we ourselves are aliens on the planet we call home? Panspermia, the “controversial” theory that life “began elsewhere in space” ...

Sooner or later, a sizable asteroid could impact a populated area on Earth. How is the US, and the world, preparing?

The University at Albany is starting new majors related to climate change, but students won't just study science. Economics, ...

Earth's rotation is randomly speeding up, and nobody is quite sure why. These speedups, which have occurred several times over the last few years, haven't had any effect on daily life, but they also ...