Potentially deadly comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new ...

A trio of physicists, two with Coventry University, in the U.K., and the third with Laboratoire National des Champs ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...

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

Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.

Now, researchers suggest these mysteries could point to the existence of an undiscovered Earth-like planet. Decoding the ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.