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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory, astronomers have taken a closer look at a nearby exoplanet and ...

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