This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

Ever since the term “Snowball Earth” was first proposed in a 1992 paper, it has prompted substantial debate among scientists.

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, raising questions about Earth ...

Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...