Earth is covered in water ... Eventually, once the water level dips past 9,000 meters below sea level, there’s basically nothing left, and the planet is essentially naked.

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

Water, one of the essential ingredients for life on Earth, did not appear on the planet until after the moon-forming event, a new study claims ...

Imagine a healthy planet with healthy humans living on it: the world has embarked on a path to clean energy, clean air and fresh water; we are feeding ourselves without compromising land or sea ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

They confirmed the existence of a rocky planet, called a "super ... where liquid water could exist on a world's surface. (Earth, for example, orbits in this special area, where it's neither ...

With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the fifth largest planet in our solar system, and it's the only one known for sure to have liquid water on its surface. Earth is also unique in terms of ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth ... results without (dashed blue arrow) and ... [+] with (solid blue arrow) groundwater mass redistribution. The water pumped ...

The closest stellar system to Earth is the three star group ... that is neither too hot nor too cold for water to exist on an orbiting planet without boiling away or freezing.

Space telescope aims to confirm major finding on distant planet ... mass of Earth and over twice as big – was discovered in 2015. But it was only in 2019 that the presence of water vapour ...