A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's ...

The researchers theorize that these far-off remnants could either be deposits of silica-rich material that have hung around since the formation of the mantle four billion years ago, or areas where ...

(For reference, our middle-aged planet, Earth, is some 4.5 billion years old.) Most exoplanets today are discovered by the "transit method," wherein a telescope watches for slight dips in a star's ...

Venus and Saturn are currently in conjunction, meaning the planets appear close together in the night sky from Earth. These ...

The new planet is just over twice the size of Earth - in a planet category known as a "super Earth" - and has a temperature cool enough to have liquid water, between zero and 40C. K2-18b is 111 ...

Neighbouring star has Earth-sized planet Co-discoverer Nicola Astudillo ... "When the ELT comes online (at the middle of the next decade) it shall provide both the collecting power and the angular ...