Earth is taking in more energy than it releases back to space—a growing "energy imbalance" that is fueling global warming. A ...

Learn how we know the Earth is round, and the science behind the shape of our gravitational field.

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...

A Flat Earther attempts to fold a flat map over a globe to prove the Earth is not curved. The demonstration seems ...

Flat earth” — the idea that we’re not in fact living on a sphere, but rather on a dirt pizza, hanging stationary in space ...

Far beyond the reach of any probe, astronomers have found a gas giant whose atmosphere behaves less like a familiar planet and more like a special effect from a big-budget space epic. Orbiting a ...

Astronomers have discovered a carbon-rich exoplanet with a bizarre atmosphere and shape, orbiting a neutron star under extreme conditions that challenge current models of planetary formation. Scientis ...

Earth isn’t a perfect sphere. The rotation of our planet causes it to bulge ever so slightly at the equator, making it about ...

The discovery marks a significant moment for a theory that was once dismissed as fringe science but is now gaining serious scientific traction. Panspermia is far from a modern invention. The concept ...

Pulsars emit a lot of radiation, in particular high-energy gamma-rays and radio waves pulses. That light is invisible to JWST ...

Deep inside Earth, researchers see signs that the solid inner core may be arranged in multiple chemical layers far below.

Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet with an atmosphere outside the solar system, ...