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

Astronomers are investigating a potential hidden planet, dubbed Planet Y, far beyond Neptune. Its gravitational pull is ...

CO₂ ice blocks on Mars may dig gullies as they slide and sublimate in the thin atmosphere. In lab experiments, scientists recreated these eerie, worm-like movements under Martian conditions. The ...

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

The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it's happening right now and affecting what matters most to us. Hurricanes ...

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

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

A newly discovered space rock will zoom safely by Earth later today (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance ...

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

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

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