A newly found super-Earth could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets twice the diameter of Earth.

Between the beautiful views, luscious landscape, and bountiful critters on the Drummond Ranch, every day is like Earth Day.

The private Fram2 mission is launching later today, sending a crew of amateurs to an unprecedented polar orbit—a frontier ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...

According to scientists, this ambipolar electric field is thought to be just as crucial to Earth as both gravity and ...

Needham native and astronaut Sunita Williams, along with fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore, spoke Monday for the first time ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

In a study published in Systematic Biology, researchers from Imperial College London, UCL, Dalhousie University and the ...

But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...

HBO's The Last of Us TV series remains a fan-adored post-apocalyptic drama starring the award-winning actor, Pedro Pascal in ...