By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...

These exoplanets can be up to 10 times larger than Earth, which might be ideal for our growing population. But with more mass ...

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

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.

may also reveal why Earth uniquely supports life. As advanced telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope explore ...

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

Located 690 light years away from the Sun, the newest discovered planet is third most dense sub-Saturn class located at the ...

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...

These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.