Earth’s magnetic field protects the planet from space weather like cosmic radiation and charged particles from the Sun. The ...

The discovery of ancient water in a planet-forming disk reveals that some of the water found in comets—and maybe even ...

MIT scientists have discovered ancient rock samples from Greenland, Canada, and Hawaii exhibiting a rare potassium-40 deficit ...

For thirteen years, from 2004 to 2017, the Cassini-Huygens mission conducted a detailed survey of the Saturn system. It ...

NASA launched an exoplanet-hunting experiment Oct. 1 despite the government shutdown. After the mission's end on Oct. 2, news ...

We're just weeks away from this interstellar visitor reaching its brightest in Earth's night skies. Will we see it?

Heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere jumped by the highest amount on record last year, soaring to a level ...

Heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere jumped by the highest amount on record last year, soaring to a level ...

Flat Earthers have travelled to Antarctica and even attempted to fly in homemade rockets in their quest to prove the world is ...

Last month was the third-warmest September on record globally, behind 2024 and 2023, according to new data analyzed by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). The planet’s average surface air ...

Peatlands are among the world's most important yet underappreciated ecosystems. They are a type of wetland that covers a ...