WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a glimpse of what may be in store for Earth billions of years from now ...

Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star. By Jonathan O’Callaghan In six billion years the sun ...

However, this would only be Earth's future if our planet manages to survive the sun's eventual transformation into a swollen red giant. This transformation is expected to happen around 5 billion ...

That hot core is the white dwarf, and it will take trillions of years to cool to complete darkness. We don't know what this will mean for our planet. Its destruction is possible. But this new ...

Mosquitoes that carry diseases can move from the tropics into what used to be temperate climates as the planet warms, and may infect more people in the months that are normally disease free.

The thought goes like this: Slowing our planet-warming emissions isn’t enough, we need to find ways to remove them, too, to avoid the worst of climate change. But as science edges closer to ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today released first light images from its Tanager-1 satellite. The first set ...

Our warming planet alters the baseline conditions for localized severe weather events. From extreme heat waves to flooding rains, destructive hurricanes or severe thunderstorm outbreaks ...

Here at the World Jigsaw Puzzle Championships in Valladolid, Spain, I am hopelessly out of my depth. 1,170 predominantly female competitors battle to see who can be the fastest to complete a 500 ...