The first false-color image from ESA's newly operational Biomass satellite shows off a unique perspective of the rainforests, ...

The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.

A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet," study lead Miki Nakajima, an associate professor in the ...

Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable new planet which is estimated to be 6 percent larger than Earth. Named HD 137010 b, the planet is located about 146 light-away from Earth ...

Measurements of seismic waves over many years suggest the Earth's core is deformed and reshaped by conditions of extreme heat ...

A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.

Hidden mega-structures deep inside Earth may have been quietly steering our planet’s magnetic field—and rewriting what we ...

Planet Earth is spinning a little faster today — resulting in one of the shortest days of the year. But the change will be so minuscule you won’t even notice. We’re talking even less time than the ...

If someone tried to put a price tag on Earth, what would that number even be based on? Land, oceans, ecosystems, raw ...