The planet will just keep getting flatter and more boring, he predicts, until “Earth splashes into what’s left of the sun.” Prophets of Plate Tectonics Other researchers have come up with ...

KUNMING -- For centuries, the question of whether life exists beyond Earth has intrigued humanity, and now a joint discovery by Chinese and German scientists may offer a significant clue. Based on the ...

"If we see the lampshade effect in action, it will tell us about what dark matter could be, which is exciting." ...

Planet Earth is a 2006 British television series produced by the BBC Natural History Unit.Five years in the making, it was the most expensive nature documentary series ever commissioned by the BBC and ...

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Jan Beutel was half-watching a live stream of Kleines Nesthorn, a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, when he realized its cacophony of creaks and rumbles was getting ...

Their discovery – a rocky world roughly 10 times the mass of Earth, orbiting a star in the so-called habitable zone – was published this week in Nature and is already generating buzz.

As astronomers study an exoplanet called K2-18b, conflicting research reveals how difficult it is to find evidence of life beyond Earth.

Delving further into the paper, Luque and Zhang also noticed that the perceived temperature of the planet appeared to increase sharply from a range of about 250 Kelvin to 300 Kelvin (-9.67 F to 80 ...

SCIENTISTS have stumbled across a new Super-Earth that orbits inside its star’s habitable zone with a new alien-hunting tool. Searching for Earth-like planets – and Earth-like life R… ...

Scientists discover a 'Super-Earth' planet in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. READ MORE: Mysterious cosmic object emitting radio waves and X-rays; By JONATHAN CHADWICK FOR MAILONLINE.