For life to develop on a planet, certain chemical elements are needed in sufficient quantities. Phosphorus and nitrogen are ...

The world is warming. This fact is most often discussed for Earth's surface, where we live. But the climate is also changing ...

Harvard University researcher Michael McElroy made groundbreaking contributions to climate science and helped shape global ...

Gas giants are massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They lack solid surfaces, and in our solar system, Jupiter ...

The planet's radius from pole to center has been revised to 66,842 km, and at the equator to 71,488 km. That makes it about 12 km smaller along the poles, and about 4 km smaller at the equator, than ...

Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, ...

SIGNS of an alien planet that’s about the same size as Earth have been picked by up a Nasa telescope. Scientists say it might ...

The chemicals that helped save the ozone layer may be quietly seeding the planet with an indestructible pollutant.

The discovery provides new insights into the question, 'how large can a planet be?' An illustration of the HR 8799 system with three of its gas ...

The similarities are astonishing. And yet... The post NASA Telescope Discovers Nearby Planet With Deep Similarities to Earth ...

The Juno observations showed that Jupiter has an equatorial diameter of 88,841 miles (142,976 km), which is about 5 miles (8 ...

Some of Earth’s earliest microbes evolved the ability to use oxygen hundreds of millions of years before it accumulated in ...