The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.

Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky ...

An ultra-hot rocky exoplanet may be wrapped in a dense atmosphere, defying expectations about what small planets can sustain.

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has once again baffled scientists and astronomers with its increasing brightness and striking ...

The new dataset, published in Earth System Science Data by 16 scientists, shows a significantly cooler Earth from the late 1700s through 1849 compared with 1850-1900 — the latter being what scientists ...

Scientists have uncovered a massive, hidden rock layer beneath Bermuda, over 12 miles thick, defying typical oceanic island ...

By trapping huge amounts of water on land, big dams built by humans have slightly changed how Earth spins and where its poles ...

Every second, our planet is racing through space at tens of thousands of miles per hour, yet the air outside the window ...

Comets are not the only celestial bodies with tails. Earth and Mercury also possess them, formed by different mechanisms.

Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an ...

If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age.

Africa is on a fierce campaign that, if successful, will see the Mercator map replaced with the Equal Earth map on web-based ...