Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

On Sept. 18, 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photo of Earth and the moon. It was the first time both the Earth and ...

Material deep inside Earth — thousands of kilometres down, near the planet’s core — has undergone a mysterious shift. Is ...

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events ...

TRAPPIST-1, a planetary system 40 light years from Earth, could host a planet with an atmosphere and liquid water, but astronomers can’t be certain just yet.

Space and time seem like two completely different ideas, but Einstein showed they are interlinked in what is known as ...

The sculpture will remain in the Core until 20:00 BST on Sunday for public viewings. This will be the last chance to see GAIA ...

A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth's invisible "halo," the faint light given off by our planet's outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the ...

Some asteroids hold more iron, nickel and cobalt than Earth's reserves, presenting options for off-planet construction, fuel production and radiation shielding for future space colonies.

Earth has a number of mini-moons and quasi-moons. Mini-moons are objects that orbit our planet. But they make for fickle fans: They tend to swing around Earth for only a matter of months. One example ...

A 2014 astronaut photo shows a pair of volcanic lakes appearing to stare up into space from the Chiltepe Peninsula of ...

A distant exoplanet might have an atmosphere similar to Earth's, early observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ...