This Planet Shows What Earth Might Look Like In 8 Billion Years' Time
Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...
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Groundbreaking study provides new evidence of when Earth was slushy
At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the ...
Advances in plate tectonics research provide a new view of deep Earth's carbon emissions
From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...
8 Billion Years Ahead: Earth’s Fate Revealed by a Distant Twin Planet
Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, offering a glimpse into our ...
Does Planet 9 Exist? Scientists Say New Telescope Could Finally Settle the Debate
The search for Planet Nine, a hidden world beyond Neptune, is heating up as scientists prepare to use a powerful new telescope.
Experiment reveals how Earth's magnetic field influences flow in planet's core
A trio of physicists, two with Coventry University, in the U.K., and the third with Laboratoire National des Champs ...
In Photos: See NASA Juno’s Jaw-Dropping New Images Of Jupiter
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has returned new images of Jupiter after its 66th close flyby as it enters the final year of its ...
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Researchers Detail "Slushy Earth" After Last Ice Age
Results from a new study provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the "slushy" planet – otherwise known as the ...
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After Snowball Earth Came Short-lived Slushball Earth, Lithium Isotopes Prove
Although the consequences of a quarter of the planet’s water melting could be determined theoretically, this is the first ...
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Unexpected Metal Flow Challenges Theories Of How Earth's Magnetic Field Forms
The Earth’s magnetic field is why we are here today. It protects life from harmful radiation from the Sun and many other cosmic events. It is generated in the liquid outer core of our planet, but ...