Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up surprises. A new paper reveals the latest: a possible rocky planet slightly larger ...

A new analysis of meteorite isotopes challenges long-held ideas about Earth’s origins, suggesting our planet may have formed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth surrounded by a red haze preresenting plasma A strange phenomenon thought to only exist near the Sun has been detected in ...

As of late 2025, NASA had confirmed the existence of a temporary second moon that would remain in orbit next to Earth until 2083. Astronomers discovered a "quasi-satellite" of Earth, also known as a ...

On the shores of the west coast of Australia lies a window to our past: the stromatolites and microbial mats of Gathaagudu ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered an extrasolar planet orbiting TOI-4616—a nearby M-dwarf star. The newfound alien world, ...