A distant planet has been dubbed Earth 2.0 after Nasa scientists said it was “the closest thing that we have” to a planet that could sustain life as Earth does. Whether you see the discovery ...

Related: 25 years of exoplanet hunting hasn't revealed Earth 2.0 — but is that what we're looking for? The planet, which is named TIC 393818343 b and resides about 300 light-years away from ...

Researchers have discovered a planet with a higher habitability rating than Earth, sparking excitement about the possibility ...

Also called Janssen, 55 ... [+] Cancri e is a so-called super- Earth, a rocky planet significantly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, which orbits its star at a distance of only 1.4 ...

Scientists have discovered two “super-Earth” exoplanets, one of which is in its star’s habitable zone. That means liquid water could exist on its surface. The planet, known as LP 890-9c or ...

Mercury speeds around the Sun at nearly 47 kilometres per second - almost 60% faster than Earth's orbiting speed. How long is a day on Mercury? Days on Mercury are very long because the planet rotates ...

The Earth is 4.5 billion years old, and modern humans have been around for around a mere 200,000 years. Yet in that time we have fundamentally altered the physical, chemical and biological systems of ...

Humanity is conducting a giant chemistry experiment with Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, but is it really unprecedented? Justin Rowlatt tells the story of how our planet was made. Show more ...

scientists and conservationists from all over the world examine the ways in which we can protect and restore our planet.

NASA's testing a solar sail system in space, and the spacecraft that brought the tech there has snapped a photo.

But before Darwin published his groundbreaking work in 1859, other scientists were already trying to explain the diversity of life on Earth. One such scientist was Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ...

A new model of Earth's climate system suggests that if global ... all 365 days in the year exceeded 1°C above pre-industrial levels, bringing the planet uncomfortably close to exceeding the ...