Since soon after our planet formed, Earth's 4.6 billion-year-long history was dominated by single-celled life. Something ...

A 6-mile-think shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon's ...

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

It is estimated that “giant impactors,” greater than 6.2 miles (10 kilometers ... occur when large meteorites hit Earth, and they form sedimentary layers in rocks that are known as spherule ...

A hole in the atmosphere's ozone layer is the seventh-smallest since recovery began in 1992, the National Oceanic and ...

This phenomenon, also known as a beaver moon, occurs when the Moon is both full and at the closest point to Earth, making it ...

SpaceX successfully launched Wednesday a new batch of Starlink satellites into orbit to further its mission to expand ...

A massive space rock, estimated to be the size of four Mount Everests, slammed into Earth more than 3 billion years ago — and the impact could have been unexpectedly beneficial for the earliest forms ...

Earth’s solid outer layer, which includes the crust and the ... Related: Plate tectonics are 3.6 billion years old, oldest minerals on Earth reveal Nicholas van der Elst, a seismologist at ...

A November 6 solar flare hit X2.3-class in strength, causing Atlantic radio blackouts, with more potentially on the way if further solar flares are released.