Mars may look like a quiet, dusty world, but it’s actually buzzing with hidden electrical activity. Powerful dust storms and ...

Polar ice melt caused by climate change is slowing the rotation of our planet at a rate never seen in the last 3.6 million ...

One photo of Earth, taken Thursday by Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman from the Orion window, shows the planet backlit, with ...

Dying stars may be wiping out nearby giant planets as they expand into red giants. Astronomers found that these close-in planets become increasingly rare around more evolved stars, suggesting many ...

Exactly when and how plate tectonics started, however, is a matter of debate. Now, in a study published March 19 in the ...

For reasons that are still unclear, climate models underestimate the growing gap between the amount of energy Earth receives ...

A major defense against everything space throws at us, Earth’s magnetic field may even protect the moon from damaging ...

Scientists at the Rubin Observatory have identified nearly 11,000 asteroids, including hundreds beyond Neptune and 33 ...

It only takes one close encounter with a lightning strike to get the full sense of its power. At around 1 gigaJoule of energy ...

Historically planetary defense research has focused on deflecting asteroids by using momentum to nudge their cosmic course ...

Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner ...