Earth's systems are nearing tipping points that could plunge the planet into a "hothouse" regime — but there's still time to ...

Advocates of these end-of-the-world theories say we could be experiencing the onset of what the Bible and Christianity refer ...

What can a 3D map of an exoplanet’s atmosphere teach astronomers about the planet’s formation, evolution, and composition?

The early growth of the gas giant carved rings that formed primitive meteorites and shaped the architecture of the inner solar system. New research from Rice University reveals that Jupiter played a ...

2024 may have been Earth's hottest year in at least 125,000 years, according to a grim climate report published Wednesday (Oct. 29) that describes our world as "on the brink" and warns its "vital ...

A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of ...

Siddharth Patel, a 12-year-old who lives in London, Ontario (west of Toronto), spotted two possible asteroids in September as ...

Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...

The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moons, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.

Hidden by the Sun’s glare, a new space object has been found lurking in our Solar System, and it's one of the fastest-moving ...

Kepler-452b is one of the most Earth-like planets ever discovered, orbiting a star much like our Sun. Located over 1,400 ...