Australia’s sea surface temperatures were the warmest on record last year, according to a snapshot of the nation’s climate ...

Scientists have long overlooked white dwarfs as hosts for habitable exoplanets, assuming their lack of fusion would make life impossible. But new climate models challenge that idea, showing that ...

The threat from space rock 2024 YR4 has surpassed that of Apophis, an asteroid feared by scientists 20 years ago. The danger remains low, but experts are estimating the damage that could be done.

China has created the first helicopter-borne geophysical electromagnetic detection device that can peer beneath the Earth's ...

The YR4 spans 100 meters and its impact would be comparable to eight million tons of dynamite.

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting within the habitable zone of its star – the range of distances where liquid ...

Scientists accidentally discovered that the Earth's inner core might not be how we thought it was - and it could affect the length of a day.

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto ...

Not only is Earth’s inner core spinning and growing, but it’s also changing shape, according to new research. Our planet’s [… ...

Hundreds of millions of Americans will have the chance in March to see the first total lunar eclipse in nearly three years.

A total lunar eclipse will come during the next full moon March 13-14, the Worm Moon, in Michigan. Here's a look at what to know.