Billions of years ago, Earth was an uninhabitable rock covered in magma. Scientists are still working to decipher the tale of how it transformed into a blue and green orb teeming with life. However, ...

A sampling of aging Sun-like stars demonstrates that they likely eat their closest planets. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth on Friday, Dec. 19. The comet will pass within about 170 million miles of our planet and poses no danger. While not visible to the naked ...

An unusual object orbiting a rapidly spinning star might be a new phenomenon in the universe. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Earth isn’t a perfect sphere. The rotation of our planet causes it to bulge ever ...

A rocky exoplanet outside the Earth's solar system may have an atmosphere, according to new evidence gathered by NASA researchers. The exoplanet, known as super-Earth TOI-561b, was discovered in 2020, ...

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for signs of an atmosphere—and potentially life-supporting conditions. Early James ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. In the humid swamps of what is now Colombia, there was once ...

An artist's impression of the collision between the early Earth and Theia, which may have formed the moon MPS / Mark A. Garlick Around 4.5 billion years ago, a planet called Theia is thought to have ...

Two perplexing structures deep inside Earth might be ancient remnants of our early planet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Two ...

The Jacksonville Zoo's Colors of the Wild event features an all-new collection of lanterns. The holiday light display runs on select nights from November through early February. The event includes ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of Earth’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later formed the moon.

Each second of filmmaker Daniel Raven-Ellison's short film represents one percent of the Earth's surface. Only eight seconds show intact forest. A wetland in the U.K., seen from above. The short film ...