Located less than 20 light years away, HD 20794d could potentially be one of the most Earth-like planets found so far, ...

Earth's unusual orbit through hot and cold conditions tests the limits of tolerability for any known lifeforms.

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

Hang son Doong, Vietnam, one of the largest caves on Earth. It is a portal to an extreme world, two hundred metres deep underground. Plants can only survive in this spot because light streams ...

If you think Earth has some bad weather ... So if the lack of oxygen and extreme temperatures don't kill you, the radiation certainly will. This isn't as much of a problem on Venus, however.

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Exoplanet WASP-127b is a hot Jupiter, a gas giant planet orbiting very close to its star. The system is more than 500 ...

CASH-STRAPPED Brits can earn over £50,000 a year by applying for a range of new jobs, but they would have to move to one of ...

Because Earth is tilted far enough on its axis that ... And that's where a more extreme tilt starts to cause problems. Right now, during the summer in the Northern Hemisphere, places far north ...

Whether life could survive on such an extreme world is unknown. On Earth, our seasons are driven by our planet's 23.4-degree tilt; for instance, northern summer occurs when our planet's northern ...