How much do you know about our planet? Here are the amazing, odd and downright cool Earth facts scientists learned in the ...

Planet Earth is spinning a little faster today — resulting in one of the shortest days of the year. But the change will be so minuscule you won’t even notice. We’re talking even less time than the ...

A newly-discovered planet named Enaiposha, GJ 1214 b, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a ...

Even at a glance, the planets in our solar system are wildly diverse. Huge and small, airless and densely packed with ...

Planet Labs is leveraging its Earth-imaging platform to become a provider of actionable artificial intelligence (AI)-powered analytics.

The possibility of life on other planets is one of the biggest mysteries in science. But what would happen if we actually ...

New research suggests scientists can search for life beyond Earth by studying patterns across many planets instead of relying ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up surprises. A new paper reveals the latest: a possible rocky planet slightly larger ...

The perspective-changing "overview effect" is magnified when you're looking back at Earth from beyond the moon, according to ...

Leaving Planet Simple doesn't require rocket ships and interstellar “road trips” to Mars. It demands something potentially more challenging: a paradigm shift in how we understand our relationship with ...

Two Earth-sized planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1 are locked in permanent day and night, with heat differences suggesting they are ...