What will the next 50 years look like for Earth? Explore what current scientific research says about climate change, ...

The Planetary Health Check is a key monitor of earth's vital signs—and will guide action for a more sustainable world.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leslie Katz covers the intersection of culture, science and tech. A yellowish-orange glow bathes Phainoterra, a planet of dramatic ...

WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is vaporized by stellar heat, trailed by a ...

I’m a planetary scientist who was born the year of Sputnik’s launch. Over the course of my 40-year career, I’ve witnessed not one but at least five separate revolutions that fundamentally transformed ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Each planet in our solar system takes a different amount of time to complete one orbit around the sun. For example, Mercury, being closest to the sun, takes just 88 Earth days to ...

Two years ago, astronomers believe they detected a star devouring one of its planets. Now, new observations of the aftermath of same event from the James Webb Space Telescope have suggested a scenario ...

NORFOLK, Va. — This week will bring a celestial parade, full planetary alignment. The alignment will involve Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune appearing in an arcing line from ...

Six planets are set to align on Saturday, creating a planetary parade that will be visible to sky-gazers across the globe.

While our Sun prefers to go solo, many other stars are parts of binary systems, with a pair of stars gravitationally bound to each other. In some cases, the stars are far enough apart that planets can ...