Earth' planet that appears to flash a repeated signal from 154 light-years away.The planet, named TOI-1846 b, is almost twice the size of Earth and four times as massive.It orbits a small, cool red dw ...

Astronomers have uncovered major size errors in TESS planet data, suggesting we’ve found fewer Earth-like exoplanets than we believed.

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

Recent research from Stanford University has revealed a groundbreaking finding about rocky exoplanets that seem inhospitable ...

Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river drainage systems. Water is the biosphere's lifeblood, and without it, Earth ...

A new analysis of exoplanets has shown interstellar contamination from nearby stars could change where to search for ...

Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

Volcanic planets with static crusts, called Ignan Earths, can maintain liquid oceans and temperate climates favorable to life.

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...