Artist's concept of a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a star called HD 20794. Illustration credit: Gabriel Pérez ...

The United States has been at the epicenter of the planet’s most unusually cold conditions early in 2025. The polar vortex is ...

A new study suggests glaciers carved metals out from the Earth’s surface 700 million years ago, leading to chemical reactions ...

“The present-day Earth that we live on is not usual ... But the climate and weather variations on our planet — brought on by cold poles and a warm equator — drove us to become a highly ...

The findings reveal details about conditions on Mars when the planet last contained ... probably have required cold, wet conditions to form on Mars, Valantinas says. On Earth, the mineral is ...

Mars is covered in a fine dust that’s rich in iron oxides. You might know these compounds better as rust, the same stuff that forms when you leave an old bicycle out in the rain too long. On Earth, ...

Now researchers at Japan’s Osaka University have uncovered the physiological mechanism behind Belgica antarctica’s mastery of the cold — one that’s never ... in the few days they have left on Earth.

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many complex processes working at once, according to new research. The cool ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found pale rocks containing kaolinite on Mars, a mineral that forms in warm, wet conditions.

Earth is our home planet, and it's the only place in the universe where we know for certain that life exists. Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of gas and dust squished ...

The study applied methods developed to explore Earth's atmosphere to quantitatively estimate the influence of gravity waves on Mars' planetary circulation. Despite it being a very cold planet ...

The study applied methods developed to explore Earth's atmosphere to quantitatively estimate the influence of gravity waves on Mars' planetary circulation. Despite it being a very cold planet ...