Every 26 seconds, Earth releases a faint seismic jolt that ripples through the planet like a metronome. First picked up by ...

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NASA has selected two Earth science missions for development, one focused on studying the atmosphere and the other on terrestrial ecosystems and ice.

Astronomers have identified a frozen, Earth-sized world circling a nearby sunlike star, a find that sharpens the search for planets that resemble our own while underscoring how rare truly temperate ...

"I strained my eyes and peered intently into the darkness. No, there could be no mistake. I could definitely see land." ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of what appears to be an "ice cold Earth," a chilly but potentially habitable rocky world similar to our own located less than 150 light-years away. As ...

Deep inside Earth, two massive hot rock structures have been quietly shaping the planet’s magnetic field for millions of ...

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

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

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to ...

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 ...

But unlike Jupiter, Venus does have phases, going from not illuminated at all (when it is between the Earth and the Sun) to ...