The enchanting dunescape stretches over 43 miles (70 km) along the coast and over 30 miles (50 km) inland. Lençois translates ...

Astronomers from MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and other institutions have stumbled upon a truly bizarre planet—an ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like ...

If an Earth-like planet awaits beyond Neptune, it promises to open a new chapter in planetary science. Note: Materials ...

Astronomers have discovered a large Earth-like planet orbiting a distant star that could be home to alien life. The exoplanet - the name for a planet beyond our solar system - has the catchy name ...

From the outside, it looks like a bright blue planet – almost Earth-like – but that conceals the deadly conditions within. Temperatures on the planet can range from 919C to 1,220C (1,686F ...

In particular, a new study looks at what it would mean for our planet if an oversized Earth-like object were to be somehow dropped in between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The scenario was run ...

"It's like a lid on top of its convective mantle." But without any other nearby planets exhibiting plate tectonics to compare Earth's system to, it's hard to know precisely what causes a planet to ...

Read through the responses to this week’s Brain Game prompt, and choose which answer you like ... a new planet, it would be named Rebirth. This planet would be around the same size as Earth ...