How does the Earth generate its magnetic field? While the basic mechanisms seem to be understood, many details remain ...

A pair of geologists with the U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, has created a model that shows Earth's subsurface may hold up ...

When it comes to mice, the freeze-dried mouse sperm Wakayama is currently storing aboard the ISS will return to Earth in 2025 ...

If climate modellers’ accumulated knowledge and spiffy models could not explain what had just happened, it might mean that climate change had pushed the workings of Earth into “uncharted ...

“Familiar” black holes, if you can call them that, typically form in the wake of dying stars that collapse inwards.

An asteroid was pegged to hit Earth “imminently,” according to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS).

Indeed it is. According to the UNCCD, the transformation over the three studied decades is leading to loss of GDP, forced ...

The space rocks, both estimated to be no larger than 5 miles (8 kilometers) wide, impacted Earth within 25,000 years of each ...

Researchers have doubled the number of known dark comets, identifying two distinct types: larger ones in the outer solar ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater ...

How is the International Space Station able to orbit without burning up? – Mateo, age 8, New York, New York ...