The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy provides a preview of one possible fate for our planet billions of years in the future, when the sun has turned ...

A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. The team has determined that the star is a white dwarf ...

That hot core is the white dwarf, and it will take trillions of years to cool to complete darkness. We don't know what this will mean for our planet. Its destruction is possible. But this new ...

Mosquitoes that carry diseases can move from the tropics into what used to be temperate climates as the planet warms, and may infect more people in the months that are normally disease free.

The thought goes like this: Slowing our planet-warming emissions isn’t enough, we need to find ways to remove them, too, to avoid the worst of climate change. But as science edges closer to ...

Our warming planet alters the baseline conditions for localized severe weather events. From extreme heat waves to flooding rains, destructive hurricanes or severe thunderstorm outbreaks ...

The ring, if it existed, may have cooled the Earth, causing a deep freeze and altering the future of life on this planet, including us You can save this article by registering for free here.