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 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 ...

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...

Learn more about volcanic activity on Mars and how it may have once provided vital elements to the atmosphere.

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 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star’s habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a ...