Becomes The Hottest Year Ever Recorded 5C above the pre-industrial level. Scientists determined that 2024 is now "virtually certain" to become the hottest year ever recorded, following several months ...

How far it is from the sun: 886 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers), on average How big it is: 72,400 miles (116,500 km) across, or almost 10 times the size of Earth. How many moons it has: At ...

Earth is our home planet, and it's the only place in the universe where we know for certain that life exists. Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of gas and dust squished ...

What are the physics of life? That is more than just a philosophical question—it has practical implications for our search ...

A new study of the red dwarf system TOI-3884 has uncovered rare, persistent spot-crossing signals that reveal unusually detailed information about the star’s magnetic activity and the planet’s orbital ...

FOR five months the little spacecraft sped through the interplanetary void. Last week, on the 157th day of an arcing, 242-million-mile journey across the solar system Mariner 6 reached its destination ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and the second-largest planet in the solar system, after Jupiter. Though ...