Earth reaches aphelion on July 6, 2026, placing it about 152 million kilometres from the Sun. So why is it still summer?

A rocky world orbiting inside the habitable zone of a nearby red dwarf has drawn interest from astronomers. The exoplanet ...

A surprising reversal in molten iron flow beneath the Pacific is giving scientists a sharper view of how Earth’s magnetic ...

The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make ...

Researchers studying ancient rocks from Western Australia's Pilbara Craton found evidence that water was moving deep into ...

A newly discovered and potentially habitable exoplanet scientists are calling Earth’s “next-door neighbor” could be the next ...

The planet should not have survived the star's red giant phase—which sees a star balloon to more than 100 times its original ...

Every time I see the moon in the sky, it makes me happy. Our natural satellite is so familiar it’s easy to take it for ...

(Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) If potted plants always seem to die under your care, you can take solace in ...

JWST confirmed WD 1856b migrated inward after its star died - a trick Earth can't pull off from inside the Sun's future kill ...

Less than 30% of the world’s ocean floor has been mapped to modern standards, meaning scientists still have a clearer view of ...

When the sun swells into a red giant about 5 billion years from now, Earth may escape being swallowed by the dying star, a ...