Two bands of radiation called the Van Allen belts encircle Earth. After a May 2024 solar superstorm, two more showed up between those belts.

The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the the threat once posed by Apophis.

Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was ...

During the first nights of February, the crescent moon should line up with the planets as well. The planets are spread far apart in the solar system, AccuWeather wrote. Although it can be hard to see ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...