A long-term study of humanity's footprint after dark reveals a constantly shifting portrait of human activity visible from ...

A joint European-Chinese spacecraft blasted off into orbit Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and giant explosions of plasma shot out from the sun slam into Earth's magnetic shield ...

Planet Earth is spinning a little faster today — resulting in one of the shortest days of the year. But the change will be so minuscule you won’t even notice. We’re talking even less time than the ...

NASA launched four astronauts on a pioneering journey around the moon—the Artemis II mission. Follow our coverage here. Just 14 days ago, amid the mundanity of East Coast commutes and West Coast alarm ...

As Earth spins faster than it has in decades, atomic clocks are catching the difference, and shorter days are on the horizon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The recently spotted asteroid 2025 PN7 appears to be the source of the rumor mill about Earth's supposed second moon. Earth has several quasi-moons that get their name due to the fact that they ...

The Earth’s climate is a dynamic entity, continuously evolving over billions of years with alternating periods of extreme heat and cold. Recent scientific studies indicate that the Earth is subtly ...

Earth's core contains up to 45 times more hydrogen than the oceans do, making it the largest hydrogen reservoir on the planet, a new study suggests. Researchers found that this vast amount of ...

The results of the planet’s first annual physical—a complete health check—are in, and they are alarming. We are deep into the yellow danger zone and moving rapidly towards the red high-risk zone, ...

The SMILE mission will spend three years studying how our planet's magnetosphere interacts with solar weather.