It seems that these days all we hear about is the tragic impact our actions are having on planet earth. With billions of tons ...

It goes without saying that school is supposed to teach us facts. But that didn't stop many of us from walking away with half-truths, outdated theories, and ideas that quietly collapsed the moment we ...

Researchers found the first statistically significant evidence that global warming is accelerating. It's been topic of intense scientific inquiry for years.

NASA knocked an asteroid off course in 2022 in a pioneering test of humanity's ability to defend Earth. Its spacecraft's impact pushed the space rock into a slightly different orbit around the Sun, ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

Gravity may seem constant, but it actually varies across the planet—and one of the strangest places is Antarctica, where gravity is slightly weaker than expected. Scientists have traced this “gravity ...

It’s the first time that a celestial body’s orbit around the sun was deliberately changed. The asteroid that NASA’s Dart ...

Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago.

The pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, a new study published today in Geophysical Research Letters has ...

Two European Space Agency Mars-orbiting missions, the Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft, watched as a powerful solar "superstorm" that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet. The ...

Finding Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars and identifying signs of life such as oxygen or water is a major goal in ...