The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

It seems as if Earth's atmosphere is incredibly thin, wrapped tightly around our planet. In fact, the atmosphere consists of multiple layers, with some scientists of the opinion that the atmosphere ...

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 ...

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

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the building blocks of life.

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

Auroras are possible over the U.S. tonight (March 25) as a "moderate" geomagnetic storm hits Earth. UPDATE: The Northern ...

A report from the World Meteorological Organization confirms that 2024 was the hottest year on record and the first year to ...

Soil moisture has declined more than 2,600 gigatonnes since 2000, making a greater contribution to sea level rise than ...

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams Earth's atmosphere after being stranded at the ISS for more than nine months due ...