Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

"There are still many things related to planetary formation and the early evolution of young planetary systems that we don't ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

We found rare specimens, like a pallasite meteorite, which reveals details about major collisions in solar system history.

Engineers create an efficient system to capture carbon dioxide directly from the air, advancing climate solutions.

Earth’s magnetic north is not static. Like an anchorless buoy pushed by ocean waves, the magnetic field is constantly on the move as liquid iron sloshes around in the planet’s outer core.

Genesis data is now producing high impact science in cosmochemistry, solar physics, coronal mass ejections, and space ...

NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar is closely tracking asteroid 2024 PT5 during its nearest approach to Earth, a distance ...

By analysing... Scientists have proposed that Earth may once have had a ring system similar to Saturn’s, formed by an asteroid breakup 466 million years ago. This ring may have triggered global ...

Recent simulations link the creation of Pluto and its moon Charon to a colossal impact, akin to the Earth-Moon origin, ...

The West Antarctic Rift System is home to more than 130 volcanoes, and the region’s receding ice sheet could slowly wake them ...