In a pioneering achievement for planetary defense, NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission has proven its ...

For decades, the surface of Venus has remained an enigma, hidden beneath thick clouds and extreme conditions that make direct ...

In the 20th century, scientists began to suspect Earth was a lot older than we thought. It was our old friends/deadly foes, uranium and lead, that provided the first evidence.

In September 2022 NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. Called Dimorphos, the rock is the smaller asteroid in a binary ...

Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago.

Do you go the cremation route? What about human composting or a green burial? What’s the easiest option? But then, what’s the best option for planet Earth? If you want your last act on Earth to also ...

A new study shows that, not only did the agency’s 2022 DART mission shift the orbit of the moonlet Dimorphos, it also changed the path of its parent asteroid around the sun.

Finding Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars and identifying signs of life such as oxygen or water is a major goal in ...

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun ...

Since 2014, the planet has been warming by about 0.36°C per decade, according to an analysis of five temperature datasets, raising fears that climate tipping points could be crossed earlier than expec ...

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego received a $15 million grant to expand observation of parts of the ocean and help scientists understand how the ocean is changing.

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.