Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

For all our technological progress, humanity remains confined to a single planet. But that may not always be the case. Over the past few decades, astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, ...

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How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that led to biology, or when the first primitive life forms appeared. But what ...

Earth has the perfect combination of a livable atmosphere and a protective magnetic field that prevents the Sun's harmful radiation and radioactive solar winds from damaging us, allowing us to live on ...

The number of billionaires worldwide – and their combined wealth – reached record highs this year, buoyed in particular by gains in tech stocks, Swiss bank UBS has found. The world had 2,919 ...

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial rocks reveals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Two perplexing structures deep inside Earth might be ancient remnants of our early planet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Two ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying itself, melting large portions of our planet’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later pulled ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Five decades, one epic store. Third Planet, a comic book and sci-fi superstore, is celebrating its 50th anniversary in November. TJ Johnson opened the store in 1975. "Not everyone ...

While the Earth has gone through some dramatic climate changes in its 4.6-billion-year history, natural processes like silicate weathering can help return things to a comfortable equilibrium. A new ...