Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation ...

The map, spanning 4,000 light-years from the sun in all directions, combines a chart of space dust with the effects of a rare type of young, hot star.

The Planetary Boundaries are a framework that describes the upper limits of the impacts of human activities on Earth. Ocean ...

The comet, named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third confirmed interstellar object ever seen in our solar system. That means it came ...

Scientists are war-gaming humanity's worst nightmare: an asteroid with Earth's name on it. In April 2024, nearly 100 planetary defence experts gathered at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory to ...

Planetary scientists discovered the moon is slowly rusting, and Earth may be responsible. Their research, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, shows that oxygen particles escaping ...

Ahead of the Eat-Lancet Commission's 2.0 report on the Planetary Health Diet, the meat industry is gearing up for a ...

A pair of Mars-bound satellites are back to Kennedy Space Center a year after NASA bowed out of its chance to be the debut launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn.

President Trump’s proposed NASA budget looks to drop 41 science missions including 19 that are operational in space. The new ...

A study published in the journal Nature Astronomy challenges traditional explanations about the origin of the innermost planet in the Solar System and proposes a more likely scenario. The collision ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the Solar System formed, it took no more than three million years for the ...

You're introduced to someone and your attention catches on their eyes. They might be a rich, earthy brown, a pale blue, or the rare green that shifts with every flicker of light. Eyes have a way of ...