A piece of a suspected rocket found on fire in Western Australia highlights the growing problem of space junk – and how ...

Massive volcanic eruptions billions of years ago may have made it snow on Mars, leaving thick buried ice near the planet’s ...

A scientist has issued a serious warning regarding one of Elon Musk's companies - and it could have a hug impact for us on ...

Earth’s magnetic field is essential to life on our planet. It protects Earth from cosmic radiation and acts as a shield ...

Per the ESA, this phenomenon can be best explained by strange behaviors far within the Earth at the boundary where the ...

Scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi have discovered why it rains on the Sun. Solar rain, made of cooling plasma, forms ...

Coccolithophores, tiny planktonic architects of Earth’s climate, capture carbon, produce oxygen, and leave behind geological ...

The appearance of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere was a turning point in the history of our planet, forever transforming the ...

Earth's climate has fluctuated between cold and warm periods for millions of years. During the so-called "lukewarm interglacials"—warm phases between 800,000 and 430,000 years ago—atmospheric CO2 ...

A study supported by NASA has shown that Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere, which makes our planet hospitable for humans and animals, will not last forever. In fact, scientists now believe that Earth's ...

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human ...

New ways to measure thawing permafrost could help us understand its potential impacts on infrastructure, military outposts, ...