According to the paper laying out the research behind the discovery, "TOI-1846b is a super-Earth-sized planet, with a radius ...

The “Largest Piece of Mars on Earth” just sold at auction for about $5.3 million— $5,296,000, to be exact. Popular Science ...

Despite geopolitical tension and national budget woes, one message rang out loud and clear at Living Planet Symposium 2025: ...

In the quest for life beyond our planet, Earth has long been considered the gold standard for habitability. However, recent research is suggesting that there may be exoplanets out there that could ...

When the moon is positioned farther from Earth's equator and closer to the poles, its pull on the planet becomes weaker. With ...

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...

The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

Our planet whirls around the sun in an ellipse, rather than a circle. On Thursday the planet reached its farthest point from its star, known as aphelion.

Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth’s outer shell is divided into several plates that glide over Earth's mantle.

What did the snowball Earth look like? Entire continents, even in the tropics, seem to have been under sheets of ice.

Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to literally save the planet.