Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

While trying to determine if it could use the entire Earth's atmosphere as a massive sensor, DARPA made a highly unusual ...

Jupiter experiences a widespread atmospheric heating event following a collision with solar wind, prompting a new perspective on giant planet dynamics. (CREDIT: NASA, ESA, and J. Nichols (University ...

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...

Jupiter’s skies can glow with lights more intense than anything on Earth. Its polar auroras shine when charged particles ...

Using ALMA, astronomers discovered that Proxima Centauri produces frequent, high-energy millimeter-wavelength flares that ...

Fortunately, thanks to the Earth's atmosphere acting as a natural shield, instead of crash landing on the ground, the asteroid burns up and produces an impressive light show, streaking across the ...

A new space environment report from the ESA shows that Earth's space junk problem got significantly worse throughout 2024.

Kilometers above the Earth’s surface, the ozone layer protects humanity and all life from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays.

Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.