There are thousands of different minerals on Earth, but the discovery of a particular mineral is rather unique. After all, it ...

The essential ingredient for life, water, appeared on both planets around 4.4 billion years ago, new research indicates.

It's incredibly rare but there are a handful of beaches on Planet Earth where star-shaped sand can be found. Sand on three ... has a rather different take on things. The story goes that the ...

Over many millions of years, NASA suspects the young world could mature into either of the most common planets found in our ...

Thanks to instruments such as NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have found more than 3,800 planets orbiting other stars, some of which are about the size of Earth, and a handful of which ...

The Great Basin bristlecone pine is found in the western United States ... Basin bristlecone pine the oldest single living thing on the planet? That depends on your definition of a "single tree".

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Astronomers have discovered an Earth-mass planet very close to us. Known as Wolf 1069 b, the planet orbits a red dwarf star ...

It’s a rare thing; most planets are either too close and scorching hot, or too far and freezing cold. NASA is always on the hunt for planets like our own, and recently found a new super-Earth by ...