A team led by researchers at the University of Tokyo has created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to ...

New images of the Mercury taken by a robotic spacecraft have just been released — and they show the scorched planet in ...

Temperatures at its surface are high enough to melt lead, and the pressure in the atmosphere is 92 times that on Earth, making Venus inhabitable. But this is where NASA’s interest lies not on the ...

As any well-informed person will know, Antarctica is an island continent at the southernmost part of our planet. People who believe the idea that the Earth is disc-shaped rather than round are ...

According to Brown, that force is coming from a ninth planet—one bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by ...

In 2003, Hubble provided evidence of a massive planet around a very old star, almost as old as the universe. Such stars possess only small amounts of heavier elements that are the building blocks of ...

Trappist-1 b may experience intense volcanism An Earth-sized planet in a star system very similar to our solar system may have an atmosphere after all, suggests new research using the James Webb ...

A similar disintegration is believed to have led to the rings of Saturn, and, like those, the Earth’s ring would eventually have dissipated due to debris falling down to the planet, which explains the ...

If climate modellers’ accumulated knowledge and spiffy models could not explain what had just happened, it might mean that climate change had pushed the workings of Earth into “uncharted ...

Earth calling CUPW. The union people representing Canada Post’s 55,000 employees don’t live in the same world as the rest of us. They don’t breathe the same air. They’re as disconnected ...

That's not enough of the planet's circumference to see the horizon line begin to show off its curve. Like a fly on a circus ball, we just can't see enough of the edge where the Earth meets the sky.