New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than ...

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) is more than just a club for students who are passionate about ...

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

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

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

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

The World Economic Forum and leading open science publisher Frontiers today launched the inaugural 10 Emerging Technology ...

The dream of living on another planet has intrigued scientists, engineers, and explorers for a long time. Now, the dream is ...

Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion ...

Long before humans built computers, nature built a better one. Razan Al Mubarak sees biodiversity as the planet’s original ...

For billions of years, Earth’s continents have remained remarkably stable, forming the foundation for mountains, ecosystems ...

Surging temperatures worldwide have pushed coral reef ecosystems into a state of widespread decline, marking the first time ...