Forty light-years away sits a scorched world that once earned one of astronomy’s most dazzling nicknames: the diamond planet.

Found in the northern sky, GJ 3378b is a potentially rocky world with liquid water on its surface, receiving 90% of the ...

Pluto's surface stays at about −393°F (−236°C), cold enough that nitrogen there isn't a gas at all but a glacier miles deep.

The surface of Venus sits at about 870°F under a sea-level atmospheric pressure roughly 92 times that of Earth. Standing ...

Perseverance caught Earth slipping behind Phobos on Mars, the first time anyone has recorded the sight from another planet's ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods and warm "greenhouse" states. Scientists have long linked these climate ...

In April, as the intrepid crew of Artemis II shot around the moon, NASA astronaut Christina Koch snapped a photograph of the ...

Seismic waves produced by thunderstorms, called thunderquakes, can be used as a novel source for seismic imaging, according ...

Do animals play a larger role in shaping the Earth’s surface than geological processes like flooding, wind, fire, and landslides? This is what a recent study published in Proceedings of the National ...

Learn more about BLOBS, mantel plumes 1,500 miles into Earth's mantel that contribute to massive volcanic eruptions on the surface. Massive volcano eruptions — the kind that may have contributed to ...