A geomagnetic storm supercharged Earth's auroras, or the northern lights overnight on Thursday (Oct. 10), with aurora watchers in the U.S. and across the globe on hand to capture the stunning ...

Here’s how it works. New evidence has emerged suggesting that the building blocks of life were delivered to the primordial Earth from space by meteorites, a finding that could help scientists hunt for ...

Maggie Aderin-Pocock tells us about the power of the James Webb Space Telescope and how she inspires disadvantaged students ...

Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore of NASA spoke from the International Space Station for the first time since their Boeing orbital transport returned to Earth uncrewed. After launching early on ...

Google Maps in Space allows you to zoom over the surface of the Earth like you can in regular Google Maps, except here you can also fly over Mercury, Venus, Mars, plus several moons — not just ...

June 20, 2024 — What actually happens to the human body in space? While scientists and researchers have heavily researched how various factors impact the human body here on Earth, the amount of ...

Sky-gazers won't want to miss the event since it may be the last time the comet will be seen in the night sky for another 80,000 years.

Earth and environmental sciences cover all aspects of Earth and planetary sciences, and broadly encompasses solid Earth processes, surface and atmospheric dynamics, Earth system history, climate ...

On this newly discovered exoplanet, which has at least half the mass of Venus, a year lasts just over three Earth days ... observations from the James Webb Space Telescope. These discoveries ...

This includes the solar wind and its interaction with the Earth and near-Earth space; so-called space weather. Microburst are observed in Earth’s outer and inner radiation belts, and in the slot ...