It all comes down to a tug-of-war that Earth might just win.

Earth reaches aphelion on July 6, 2026, placing it about 152 million kilometres from the Sun. So why is it still summer? Scientists explain the surprising science behind Earth's seasons.

The Sun has hurled a massive cloud of charged gas toward Earth, a coronal mass ejection that can carry billions of tons of plasma and temporarily reshape the planet’s magnetic shield. As the ...

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known ...

Out in the depths of space there lurk a range of threats to our very existence. A "War of the Worlds" scenario might be implausible, but can't be discounted. Then there are meteorites. According to ...

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 ...

Earth’s fate rests on a coin flip. In 5 billion years, our sun will balloon into a red giant star. Whether Earth survives is an “open question,” Melinda Soares-Furtado, an astrophysicist at the ...

It’s a bit worrying when a scientific paper begins, “How long will life on Earth survive?” But in this case—a study by Jacob Haqq‐Misra of Blue Marble Space and Eric Wolf at the University of Colorado ...

The astronomical phenomenon repeats every year in the middle of the northern summer and challenges a very widespread belief ...

Across Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the scientists who study these meteors. Most movies and news alerts focus on ...