It seems that these days all we hear about is the tragic impact our actions are having on planet earth. With billions of tons of waste filling our oceans, millions of people experiencing hunger every ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists gathered in a conference earlier this year in an effort to solve the issue of satellite streaks ruining a powerful new Earth-based observatory's data.

Houchin and his colleagues studied dozens of zircon crystals from the Jack Hills in Western Australia. These are the oldest ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...