One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

A suitcase-sized quantum sensor could soon reveal hidden water, oil, and even underground mountains—all by tracking how atoms ...

There is a large diversity in the chemical composition of astronomical objects such as planets, comets, circumstellar ...

A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere. TOI-270 d is ...

Scientists at Caltech are using AI to translate what frequent, small earthquakes can tell us about what’s happening below the ...

As global temperatures rise, scientists debate the pros and cons of solar geoengineering, a strategy to cool Earth by reflecting sunlight into space.

Madhavapeddy is part of the team building a new AI tool called Terra - a predictive model of all terrestrial life on Earth. It’s a hugely complex task. The aim is to understand, then help ...

O’Donoghue added that astronomers have only seen similar heating on Earth—though on a much smaller scale ... including that of our solar system’s largest world—may be more susceptible ...

An international team is currently closely tracking the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4. The impact probability estimates for the year 2032 has been reduced from a peak of 3 percent to below 0.001 ...

This journey actually started in 1742, when astronomer and geographer Anders Celsius proposed a simpler scale than that of ... step in implementing the metric system. (Anika Beaudry/TWN) Canada ...

While the company behind the drive, Exodus Propulsion Technologies, says that the drive can achieve a thrust to counteract Earth’s gravity ... field can give a system of a center of mass ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...