If the Moon were to suddenly vanish from the solar system, our home planet would suffer devastating consequences ...

Find out about the solar system and learn the order of the planets with a song in this video! The Sun is a star. The Earth is one of eight planets that travel around the Sun. The planets are ...

It was controversial as accepted wisdom at the time (supported by the church) was that Earth was at the centre of the universe. Create your own masterpiece of the solar system. You could paint it ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

The Earth, like all the other planets in the solar system, started out its life as a disc of dust and gas orbiting the young sun. The dust particles were brought together by the forces of drag to form ...

The atmosphere interacts closely with the rest of the Earth system – including the biosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, and lithosphere – as well as with urban areas and societies on time scales from ...

Climate and Earth system modelling is the use of mathematical representations of key components and properties of the atmosphere, ocean and biosphere to construct computer models. These models ...

NEW SCIENTIST But that’s not all. Like every other object in the Solar System, Earth orbits the Sun. The Sun, in turn, travels around the center of the Milky Way, moving alongside hundreds of ...

The telescope’s destination is the first Lagrange point, or L1, one of five known places in the solar system where the balanced gravitational forces of the sun and Earth tend to hold objects in ...