TOI-6894 is roughly 240 light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo and is the smallest-known star to host a large planet ...

We found big chunks of the impactor Theia.” With those five words to The New York Times, Caltech geophysicist Qian Yuan ...

The University of Göttingen has “literally struck gold” in Hawaiian volcanic rocks leaking from deep within the Earth’s ...

TOI-6894 is one such star. Announced Wednesday in a paper for Nature Astronomy, the red dwarf is just 20% the mass of our Sun ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence to suggest that Earth is leaking gases from deep inside its mantle—even in regions ...

Rebuilding the past often takes more than digging through ruins or reading faded scrolls. To truly understand ancient ...

In a hulking grey building just east of Tiananmen square in Beijing, a small team in China's Ministry of Commerce is deciding ...

Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, shifting tectonic plates—these are all signs that our planet is alive. But what is revealed ...

This June, the Milky Way’s brilliant heart lights up the night as planets align and the solstice sun marks Earth’s celestial tipping point.

Scientists have discovered that Earth's core is leaking gold and other precious metals. This leakage could explain the ...

Astronomers have been left puzzled by the discovery of an unusually large planet orbiting a remarkably small star, a cosmic ...

Giant planets are not rare per se — after all, we have four in our own solar system. Such large worlds are, however, rarely ...