The "harsh conditions" of this particular environment features a diverse wildlife that lets ... showing us the many looks of our wonderful planet, its 2022 version was pretty sad.

Glaciers are melting faster than ever. As the planet gets hotter, our frozen world is shrinking, making the water cycle more unpredictable. For billions of people, meltwater flows are changing ...

Credit: NASA/USGS Landsat 7; NASA Earth Observatory The Landsat 7 satellite isn’t the only craft capturing beautiful images of our planet from above. Other satellites and crew members on the ...

The authors argue that while the requirement to orbit our sun is too specific, other criteria in the IAU definition are too vague. For example, it says a planet has "cleared its orbit" without ...

An international team from Taiwan, Japan, and Australia used 40 years' worth of data from two space probes to track down what they believe are signs of this distant planet moving around our sun.