NASA’s IMAP mission will explore the heliosphere and study how it shields Earth from cosmic radiation and space weather.

The Earth became darker from 2001 to 2024, meaning it reflects less sunlight, a research team reports in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Sydney Chandler talks about her breakout role in "Alien Earth," her love of sci-fi, and why her first indie film marks a new chapter.

AI models used ancient zircons to reveal Earth’s earliest crust chemistry, solving a long-standing geologic mystery. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) In Earth’s early days, more than 4 billion years ago, the ...

Concentrated hydrogen in the galaxy’s spiral arms can be locked away in zircon crystals, providing startling clues about the Earth’s planetary formation.

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected witness to Earth’s distant past: tiny iron oxide stones called ooids. These mineral snowballs lock away traces of ancient carbon, revealing that oceans between ...

Much as we may treasure and proclaim our independence, we actually live in a protective bubble called the heliosphere.

New ways to measure thawing permafrost could help us understand its potential impacts on infrastructure, military outposts, and communities.

Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...

Scientists found that carbon enabled Earth’s core to solidify. Without it, the inner core may not exist. A team of scientists from the, University of Leeds, and University College London has uncovered ...

Today, our primary climate concern is a general warming of the planet. This climate emergency has already started to have disastrous effects on the planet, from extreme weather events to crop ...