At the time, the Earth would have been far closer to the moon than it is today, making it perhaps twice as large in the lunar ...

Earth-like exoplanets might be more common throughout the Milky Way than previously believed, astronomers report in a new ...

These findings, published in The Astrophysical Journal, challenge the Hycean planet hypothesis, instead suggesting a super-Earth model with a surface magma ocean. The team led by Dr. Christopher Glein ...

By sifting through that vast dataset, the team found 2,889 likely superflares on 2,527 sunlike stars. That works out to ...

A fiery mystery has puzzled geologists for decades: where did the lava fueling one of Earth’s largest volcanic events come from? A new study may finally have the answer. Scientists have long believed ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have listened to the music of a nearby star, uncovering ...

Current models of how tectonic plates move across Earth’s surface often rely on known volcanic tracks such as the Hawai‘i–Emperor and Louisville seamount chains. These chains show a clear ...

A piece of a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1972 is expected to crash back down to Earth very soon, experts say. The part, ...

In our daily lives, the sun seems constant and quiet, sedately shining at a steady pace. A fundamental rule in physics is ...

It’s no secret that a super volcano lies miles beneath the surface of Yellowstone National Park, but all this time researchers knew little beyond that — until now.