Climate change has made great swaths of the planet drier and soils saltier, jeopardizing food production and water access for ...

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's ...

Life on Earth generally requires a relatively stable temperature in order to survive, so that'd likely be the case on other ...

Venus is a planet so similar to Earth in size and composition ... the study reveals that Venus’s interior is far too dry to have been able to support liquid water at any stage of its existence.

Potentially habitable exoplanets are so incredibly common that astronomers have started to consider more unusual situations ...

Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like planet lurking in the distant ... [+] Kuiper Belt, well past the orbit of Neptune (artistic illustration). There may be an ...

The surface of Venus is dry and rocky with lava flows across parts of the planet. It takes Venus 243 Earth days to spin round on its axis but only 225 days to complete an orbit of the Sun.

The space agency said it is considering two options that would cost in the $6 billion to $7 billion range, including one that ...