Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the ...

The discovery boosts the chances of finding extraterrestrial life.

Astronomers have discovered a rocky exoplanet that has an atmosphere and sits within the habitable zone of a solar system.

A recently discovered "super Earth" located around 25 light-years from our planet is not as massive as previously thought, ...

The search for life beyond Earth has marked a new discovery — evidence of an atmosphere on an Earth-like planet beyond our Solar System with modelling suggesting it may be a water world.

We like to think of our home as a nice, smooth sphere. But mapping the Earth’s gravitational field provides a different view ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that Hawaiian volcanic rocks contain core material, lending weight to a previously held theory ...

A set of engineered safeguards could protect Earth's habitability for 9.1 quadrillion years, according to new research.

For centuries, Earth has been pictured as a near-perfect blue sphere floating through space — but a new high-precision gravity model is revealing a far stranger reality. Using detailed measurements ...

In a new review, scientists warn that this rapidly escalating, human-driven crisis threatens to upend the biosphere. The paper, published June 30 in the journal Limnology and Oceanography, argues that ...