When a giant asteroid hit Earth around 66 million years ago, it created a massive disaster that wiped out the dinosaurs. But somehow, many mammals survived, and scientists have some ideas why. Unlike ...

And the interface is awkward, although this is partly a result of all the choices you have in how you look at the planet ... the computers of Earth scientists.</p><p>NASA mostly flies the satellites, ...

The discovery brings a glimmer of hope for Earth's survival when our sun enters its final stages. A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years ...

Artist’s illustration of a distant white dwarf with an Earth-like planet in an orbit just beyond ... [+] where Mars is in our solar system. Earth could end up in such an orbit circling a white ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...

Astronomers have discovered a new Earth-like planet, orbiting a distant star 4,000 light years away in the constellation Sagittarius. This rocky planet, roughly the same size and mass as Earth ...

Nevertheless, occasionally researchers find an exoplanet which is similar to Earth and which gives a sneak peak of what the future of our planet could look like. That happened recently when ...

It's from that 1% of the 'dough' that all the planets are formed." Baby Earth, however, was nothing like the lush, green world we know today. Right when it formed, it was still molten from the ...