OnDecember1,2013,ChinalaunchedtheCHANG’E4lunarprobefromXichangSatelliteLaunchCenter.Twoweekslater,Chinabecamethethirdnationtosuccessfullylandonthesurfaceofthemo
Scientists dealt a blow Monday to the quest for organisms inhabiting worlds besides Earth, saying our planet was unusual in its ability to host liquid water -- the key ingredient for life.
ScientistsdealtablowMondaytothequestfororganismsinhabitingworldsbesidesEarth,sayingourplanetwasunusualinitsabilitytohostliquidwater--thekeyingredientforlife.Itw
EarthOvershootDaywillarriveonedayearlierthisyearonAugust2,accordingtoenvironmentalgroupsWWFandGlobalFootprintNetwork(GFN).Itmeanshumanitywillbelivingon"credit"f
Aninnovativeexperimentofdeploying"de-orbitsails"onspaceobjectslikesatellitesmayleadtobettersolutionstothegrowingpainofspacejunk,Britain'sDefenceScienceandTechno
Throughoutits4.5-billion-yearhistory,Earthhasbeenrepeatedlypummelledbyspacerocksthathavecausedanythingfromaninnocuoussplashintheoceantospeciesannihilation.Whent
Astronomershaveadded219candidatestothegrowinglistofplanetsbeyondthesolarsystem,10ofwhichmaybeaboutthesamesizeandtemperatureasEarth,boostingthechancesofhostingli
ANASAspacecrafthasspottedmonstrous'Earth-sized'cycloneschurningoverofthepolesofJupiter.ThechaoticweathersystemswereobservedbytheJunoprobe,whichhasbeenexploringt
Astronomers have found at least seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the same star 40 light-years away, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The findings were also announced at a news conference at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
Japanese scientists believe they have established the identity of a "missing element" within the Earth's core.
It doesn’t pay to take your eyes off the Earth for a second. Look away even briefly and who knows what it will get up to?
When the BBC programme Planet Earth came out a decade ago, it transformed how viewers saw their planet. The first natural history series to be filmed in high definition, it captivated a global audience of more than half a billion people by giving them an unprecedented view of life on Earth.
Don't miss your chance to see the biggest, brightest moon in 68 years.
U.S. space agency NASA on Thursday launched the nation's first mission that will visit an asteroid and bring precious samples back to Earth.
Life on Earth is even older than we thought, said Australian scientists on Thursday (Sept 1) as they unveiled fossils dating back a staggering 3.7 billion years.
Researchers in Australia have found what are believed to be the world's oldest fossils, and along with them, signs that diverse life forms lived on Earth up to 3.7 billion years ago.
(CNN)NASA said Thursday that its Kepler spacecraft has spotted "Earth's bigger, older cousin": the first nearly Earth-size planet to be found in the habitable zone of a star similar to our own.
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