Makuch, an astrobiologist at Technical University Berlin, has put forward a striking theory suggesting that NASA's Viking ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been used to shed new light on the exoplanet, GJ 1214 b, which is more than eight times ...

SETI scientists suggest that extraterrestrial civilizations could detect Earth through 'technosignatures' like planetary ...

If Earth had no atmosphere—like the Moon—there would be no scattering, and the sky would remain black, even in daylight ...

Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

While the geographical North Pole stays fixed in place (at the very summit of the Earth's rotational axis), the WMM pinpoints the magnetic North Pole – where Earth's magnetic field points straight ...

Two huge masses deep within Earth may have remained stable for billions ... But not much else about their composition or origin is known. To gain more information, Deuss and her colleagues ...

Composition of Earth’s mantle revisited due to research at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Scientists have identified mysterious formations deep ...

The autonomous island is replete with natural resources, from the oil and gas that power the economies ... in the world are large deposits of rare earth elements (REEs), materials required for ...

This map builds on a previous study published last month by USGS researchers, which suggested that untapped hydrogen lying beneath the Earth’s surface could total an astounding 6.2 trillion tons.