Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

NASA unveiled the first visuals of auroras on Neptune, captured by the James Webb Telescope. These auroras provide crucial ...

The Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft was detached from the Earth-facing port of the Unity module by the Canadarm2 robotic ...

But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

"When added to soil, compost enhances soil tilth and fertility, suppresses plant disease, improves the ability of soil to ...

Sea ice plays many important roles for the global climate: Its white surface can reflect energy back into space, helping the ...

A supercomputer has produced a predictive model detailing the tectonic catastrophe that would end life on Earth as we know it.

People have always studied the skies to predict the weather, but recently scientists have noticed that clouds are changing on ...

The Golden State will soon start using satellite technology to track down greenhouse gas emissions that may otherwise go ...