This is what scientists predict could happen to the Earth over the next 500 years. Produced by Kevin Reilly, Rebecca Harrington, and Sarah Kramer. Video courtesy of NOAA,NASA, and Alex Kuzoian.

If all the ice blanketing Earth were to disappear ... This rapid melting may not always look like cracking rocks, spilling dams, or dripping cave stalactites, as depicted in Ice Age: The Meltdown.

We have only one example of biology forming in the universe—life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do you look for alien life when you don’t know what alien life might look like?

A wider view of the Gale crater reveals how much Mars looks like Earth. The highest peak in the background is known as Mount Sharp at five kilometres high. Scientists believe Mount Sharp was ...

"Measurements of it indicate it is coming from a particular direction, kind of like a wind," O'Donoghue added. But since all of this is moving, speed is relative. So although Earth orbits the sun ...

Global warming is moving faster than the best models can keep a handle on. Fifty years into the project of modeling Earth’s ...

Detecting life beyond Earth Since the first discovery of an exoplanet in 1995, over 5,000 exoplanets, or planets orbiting other stars, have been found. Many of these exoplanets are small and rocky ...

This is what planets would look like if they were at the distance of the moon. (Second animation): This animation shows the moon orbiting Earth at the same distance as the ISS. More from News Have ...

In the latest James Webb images of Titan, the comparison to Earth is even more apt, as the planet looks like a twin of our own. Titan is Saturn’s largest moon and has thus been one of the most ...