European astronomers have made a surprising discovery. They have found one of the smallest planets known outside of our solar system. Oddly this small planet is rocky and is orbiting a regular star similar to our Sun. The discovery was made with a European Southern Observatory telescope at La Silla, Chile, using a HARPS spectrograph [...]

We live on a unique and distinctive planet, with numerous amazing facts that describe its greatness. Our planet is more than 4.5 billion years old, just a shade younger than the Sun. Recent evidence actually shows that Earth was formed much earlier than previously believed, just 10 million years after the birth of the Sun, [...]