Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

A University of Vienna study suggests that the solar system's movement through the galaxy affected Earth's climate millions ...

David Armstrong McKay is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Sussex and the lead author of a 2022 paper that ...

In a recent paper published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters ... Earth could have had its own ring system. The team used a combination of geological mapping and computer modeling to trace ...

It is widely believed that Earth's atmosphere has been rich in oxygen for about 2.5 billion years due to a relatively rapid ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia ...

At first glance, the night sky appears still. But in reality, everything moves, our Solar System being no exception. As it ...

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

"The Daisyworld model is a classic thought experiment regarding the co-evolution of life and the environment and has been widely used in the teaching of Earth system science," said author ...

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.