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

The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.

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

A faint signal from old telescope data is causing a stir in astronomy: a planet barely larger than Earth, with an almost ...

For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...

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

The chemicals that helped save the ozone layer may be quietly seeding the planet with an indestructible pollutant.

For decades, scientists believed they had a solid handle on Jupiter’s size and shape.

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that it’s only been seen once—and may never be glimpsed again ...

The Earth channels cosmic power in the form of solar energy. The coming winter superstorm shows just what havoc that power ...

Ancient volcanic rocks reveal how two giant hot regions beneath Africa and the Pacific have shaped Earth's magnetic shield.

The object dubbed Earth's "second moon" is actually a quasi-satellite that's accompanied the planet since 1957 — not a true ...