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

Martian Rock Analysis Reveals the Planet Had 'Secret Ingredient' That Was Ideal for Starting Life Planet Mars has always been ...

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

making it Earth’s most unusually cold place this year so far. This spot has been colder, relative to average, than any other place on the planet, due in large part to its proximity to this year ...

Mars may once have held enough water to fill oceans and form coastlines. The planet’s red dust contains water and likely formed in cold conditions.

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.

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

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

Cold, dark and distant ... one of three newly defined criteria to be a planet. They were: The body must orbit its host star, just as Earth and Jupiter orbit the sun. It is large enough to be ...

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 ...