Some periods in Earth's history are so different from our own that they may as well belong to another planet. Many people are ...
NASA is racing to save its Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission. The salvage effort gets ...
In May 2024, auroras were observed at unusually low latitudes across the globe, lighting up skies that rarely see such ...
A new study suggests Earth may have been sending tiny hitchhikers to Venus for billions of years. Researchers found that asteroid impacts could launch microbes into space, where some might survive the ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A large asteroid will zip past Earth this weekend, but don’t worry: It poses no danger. The space rock — 1997 ...
When you think about a large asteroid impact, you might imagine a moment of devastation: a violent collision, a blast of heat ...
A subtle change in iron ions’ electronic configuration produces a measurable difference in seismic wave speeds through mantle ...
NASA has selected for development a space science mission that will study how space weather interacts with Earth’s atmosphere ...
A new study updates the age of Earth's oldest known meteorite impact crater, the North Pole Dome crater, which scientists ...
Since the 1970s, people across the world have reported hearing an inexplicable low-frequency droning. Scientists now think ...
All told, the El Niño–Southern Oscillation is a key factor shaping Earth’s climate each year. “It’s one of the most important emergent features of the climate system beyond the seasons,” says Maike ...
Melting permafrost is releasing carbon into the atmosphere, but scientists may have underestimated just how bad the situation may be, a new analysis finds ...