Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

An ad hoc committee will plan a workshop to bring together experts to explore the opportunities and challenges of machine learning and artificial intelligence (ML/AI) to advance Earth system science.

It is widely believed that Earth's atmosphere has been rich in oxygen for about 2.5 billion years due to a relatively rapid ...

In a recent paper published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters ... Earth could have had its own ring system. The team used a combination of geological mapping and computer modeling to trace ...

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

A University of Vienna study suggests that the solar system's movement through the galaxy affected Earth's climate millions ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia ...

A collection of down-to-Earth facts about our planet and its place in the solar system. This collection ... Primary Focus Science and Science Clips, Earth, Sun and Moon. Our main source of natural ...

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.

Together with the Soxnav system, these three radars provide enhanced and more accurate data about Earth science. "With the data that can be collected from science flights equipped with the Soxnav ...