A comet just discovered last year by observers will whizz past Earth from 44 million miles away but leave a trail of dust and ...

Flip Flop Tens of thousands of years ago, the Earth's magnetic field flipped — and now, scientists have recreated the ...

Unpopulated and in the middle of nowhere, Point Nemo is starting to have a history. This article appears in the November 2024 ...

ATLAS, which should this weekend become a naked-eye object in the post-sunset sky from the northern hemisphere.

The Shijian-19 satellite carried seeds to orbit, exposing them to the microgravity environment to test plant mutation in ...

More than two million Floridians are still without power after Hurricane Milton tore through the state. The storm has been ...

One of the key components for the evolution of life as we know it is the presence of “volatiles”: elements and compounds that ...

Researchers have used the chemical fingerprints of zinc contained in meteorites to determine the origin of volatile elements ...

Before Earth became the blue planet, it was engulfed by a very different kind of ocean: a vast, deep magma ocean reaching ...

A powerful solar outburst hit Earth Thursday, triggering a "severe" geomagnetic storm. Auroras could be visible as far south ...

Space weather forecasters say a severe solar storm heading to Earth could stress power grids even more as the U.S. deals with ...

According to the 2024 Living Planet Report released today by World Wildlife Fund (WWF), where I serve as chief scientist, ...