The flood that filled the Mediterranean sea caused destruction for all creatures in its path, but created the body of water ...

Though a transit appeared every 30.5 hours, the brightness took much ... More massive terrestrial planets like the Earth have a stronger gravitational pull and therefore can hold onto their ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, ...

Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

An astronomer at Columbia University is suggesting that because life emerged so soon on Earth after its formation, it may ...

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

This means that our planet rotates at a slight angle of around 23.5 degrees. So ... the Northern Hemisphere faces away. "Just like on the Earth, you have permanent darkness and permanent daylight ...

This strange exoplanet, located 140 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, appears to be rapidly falling ...

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...