A new study shows TOI-270 d is a fiery rocky exoplanet, offering fresh insight into the galaxy’s most common planet type.

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed.

Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? In a paper ...

Imagery of fractured terrain on Venus, Mars, and Jupiter’s moon Europa pinpoints environments influenced by water.

There is a large diversity in the chemical composition of astronomical objects such as planets, comets, circumstellar ...

Titan’s coastlines lack river deltas, surprising scientists and raising questions about its active surface processes.

"The algorithm achieves precision values of up to 0.99, which means that 99% of the systems identified by the ...

Researchers in Switzerland have repurposed an AI model to uncover where all those elusive, potentially habitable worlds are ...

A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere. TOI-270 d is ...

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

As we celebrate Earth Month, we are kicking off a series of retrospectives on National Academies reports and activities ...