Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may have had a lasting impact on Earth's climate, according to a new study.

The planet is about six times more massive than Earth and could be rocky, offering a unique opportunity to study a heavier ...

Earth" planet has been discovered orbiting a star just 20 light-years away from Earth, offering exciting possibilities for ...

This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...

Saturn’s axis is, according to NASA, tilted by 26.7 degrees with respect to its orbit around the sun – and Forbes suggests ...

Genetic analyses and interviews with Indigenous farmers revealed that most manioc crops resemble each other across time and ...

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

We all depend on oxygen to survive, but about 3 billion years ago, there was barely any oxygen at all. When was the last time ...

A total lunar eclipse is a relatively rare astronomical event because the moon usually passes above or below Earth’s shadow ...

Are they stars? Are they planets? Or are they neither? Some rogue planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos alone could ...

Astronomers have identified a super-Earth orbiting a Sun-like star just 20 light-years away, making it one of the closest and ...