On September 5, 2020, California's Creek Fire grew so severe that it began producing its own weather system. The fire's ...

About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

Earth's support systems are facing environmental and social strains of unprecedented magnitude, according to the stark ...

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home galaxy.

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and Earth. The authors dubbed it Planet Y.

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

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's S. Kathleen Lyons, is providing a new framework — Earth system ...

Wave-particle interactions across the solar system can have a wide range of effects though they are caused by the same set of ...

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

The bottom line is that the fact that fire is so tightly bound to Earth is a reminder of how special our planet is. Every ...

The Earth’s atmosphere is nothing but freely roaming molecules. Left alone, they would drift and collide, and eventually even out into a mixture that’s dynamic, yet stable and broadly unchanging. The ...