P erihelion – or the Earth's closest approach to our host star – will take place on January 3, 2026. At this point, our ...

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

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my ...

Our sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as well. After a star exhausts its hydrogen nuclear fuel, its ...

Far beyond the blue sky and the familiar glow of the aurora, Earth is wrapped in a vast, ghostly shroud of hydrogen that stretches almost to the Moon. NASA’s new Carruthers Geocorona mission is ...

James Webb finds a hot planet that is tidally locked with its parent star, is coated with a thick atmosphere of volatile chemicals.

New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

Rockström is a research professor in earth system science at University Potsdam, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and co-founder of the Planetary Guardians. The ...

Earth is taking in more energy than it releases back to space—a growing "energy imbalance" that is fueling global warming. A ...

Before Earth, there was “proto Earth,” a primitive hunk of rock that formed four and a half billion years ago. It was drastically different to the Earth we know today, heaving with lava and rock all ...

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