These chemical oddities may explain why Earth seems to be deficient in certain elements — and could prove useful in catalysts ...

The first false-color image from ESA's newly operational Biomass satellite shows off a unique perspective of the rainforests, ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

A pull in the right direction ...

“This is the first planet candidate with Earth-like radius and orbital properties transiting a Sun-like star bright enough ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

Our planet is sick, and its life-threatening symptoms are getting worse, a new report warns. Earth has been pushed past multiple physical and chemical boundaries crucial for keeping the world a ...

Billions of years ago, Earth’s atmosphere was hostile, with barely any oxygen and toxic conditions for life. Researchers from the Earth-Life Science Institute studied Japan’s iron-rich hot springs, ...

Researchers estimate that the planet has about a 50% chance of being in its star's Hoble zone.

Before Earth, there was “proto Earth,” a primitive hunk of rock that formed four and a half billion years ago. It was drastically different to the Earth we know today, heaving with lava and rock all ...