Visualize Earth with an atmosphere as thick and harsh as Venus. Legal analysts react to Trump’s plan to terminate Biden ...

A new study finally uncovers what powers Venus's super-fast winds. Scientists found that a daily thermal tide—created by the ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues about the collision that created the moon.

A new study suggests that a once-daily atmospheric tidal cycle may be a bigger driver of rapid Venusian winds than previously ...

The material used to build the Temple of Venus in Naples has remarkably endured even as Earth's surface around it sank from ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, Earth had a violent neighbor. A young, still-forming planet named Theia slammed into our world with enough force to melt vast portions of its mantle and scatter a huge ...

The models showed that these strange shapes could form when magma rises and weakens the surface in a “squishy” or partly moving lid. Instead of forming clear, global plates like Earth, Venus likely ...

New insights into a pair of colossal, continent-sized structures 1,800 miles beneath the Earth’s surface have revealed clues ...

What happens when a planet contains immense quantities of water but is far too hot for that water to remain liquid?

An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.

Amateur sky watchers believe a meteorite fell to earth in northeast Michigan Sunday morning, Nov. 23, and many people have posted video online of the space debris streaking overhead.

A Rutgers researcher and collaborators have linked unusual geological anomalies to Earth’s molten origins and its unique habitability. For many years, researchers have struggled to understand two ...