Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.

Our solar system didn't form by accident. This video explains the blueprint that created rocky worlds like Earth and Mars ...

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system ...

A 1956 eruption collapsed much of the Bezymianny volcano in Kamchatka, Russia, but frequent eruptions since — including a ...

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An international team led by researchers from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at The University of Hong Kong ...

Mystery of the Moon's Creation Scientists believe Theia and early Earth contained material from very close to the Sun, a type ...

For two millennia, the Temple of Venus has existed more in the human imagination than in any stable geological reality, a ...

The models showed that these strange shapes could form when magma rises and weakens the surface in a “squishy” or partly moving lid. Instead of forming clear, global plates like Earth, Venus likely ...

Deep beneath your feet, far beyond where any drill can reach, something strange is hiding. Two continent-sized blobs of rock ...

On November 23, 2025, Venus (magnitude –3.9) and Mercury (magnitude 2.9) will be observable in the predawn eastern sky, separated by 1.5 degrees, with binoculars recommended for Mercury due to its ...

Clouds on Venus race across the sky at speeds of more than 100 meters per second, driven by incompletely understood atmospheric dynamics. Credit: Kevin M. Gill. Imagine storms fiercer than the ...