The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

Earth is our home planet, and it's the only place in the universe where we know for certain that life exists. Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of gas and dust squished ...

has been confirmed within a habitable zone 20 light years from Earth. The planet, first detected in 2022, has a mass six times that of Earth and orbits a sun-like star. Although its elliptical ...

In the first couple billion years of Earth’s existence, scientists believe our planet lacked organic molecules containing carbon-nitrogen bonds—such as uracil (a component of DNA and RNA ...

Earth and environmental sciences cover all aspects of Earth and planetary sciences, and broadly encompasses solid Earth processes, surface and atmospheric dynamics, Earth system history, climate ...

During this study, scientists were looking into what kind of events happened on Earth in order to allow oxygenation to occur 2.5 billion years ago. Their findings suggest that volcanic activity helped ...

What water, chemistry and temperature cycles fostered the chemical reactions that allowed life to emerge on our planet? Because life arose in the largely unknown surface conditions of Earth’s early ...

Alan Dyer/Getty Images The solar system has eight planets overall – Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and Earth is the ...