Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...

These “miniature trails of destruction,” as the researchers call them, are caused by high-energy particles bouncing off the ...

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, offering a glimpse into our ...

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

A supposedly stable belt of radiation 7000 km above the Earth’s surface may in fact be producing damaging bursts of ...

The European Southern Observatory captured a Halloween-themed image of the Dark Wolf Nebula, a hauntingly dense cloud of ...

Cut off from the world and mired in a deadly conflict, Myanmar is suffering from a forgotten war. But the ABC embedded with ...

The competition between Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for dominance in Earth and ...

Only a few weeks ago, massive precipitation produced by the storm “Boris” led to chaos and flooding in Central and Eastern ...

From the column: "One of the more notable challenges I faced as (Duluth's) city attorney was shutting down the Last Place on ...