In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February, 2025, Mercury will join the fun, with all seven of our planetary neighbors visible ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

Whether as a sponsor or donor, a member or volunteer, or an employee or fellow, you can make a difference. To consider how an Earth system science approach can inform research on climate intervention, ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long ...

An ad hoc committee will plan a workshop to bring together experts to explore the opportunities and challenges of machine learning and artificial intelligence (ML/AI) to advance Earth system science.

It is widely believed that Earth's atmosphere has been rich in oxygen for about 2.5 billion years due to a relatively rapid ...

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of ...

In a recent paper published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters ... Earth could have had its own ring system. The team used a combination of geological mapping and computer modeling to trace ...

A collection of down-to-Earth facts about our planet and its place in the solar system. This collection ... Primary Focus Science and Science Clips, Earth, Sun and Moon. Our main source of natural ...

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.