The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

Earth's rotation is speeding up, causing days to shorten by a fraction of a second since 2020. Scientists predict that a leap ...

In their paper published in Science of the Total Environment, researchers from IIASA and Lviv Polytechnic National University ...

On July 3, 2025, at 3:54 pm ET, the Earth will officially reach its furthest point from the Sun for this year. This is called aphelion. Our planet’s orbit is very close to a circle, but it is not a ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

Super pollutants like methane and black carbon cause almost half of global warming but only last days to years in the ...

The spacecraft, MethaneSAT, provided a much clearer picture of planet-warming emissions from oil and gas sites.

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

An international team of astronomers has found a new super-Earth exoplanet, TOI-1846 b, using NASA 's Transiting Exoplanet ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

By discovering carbonate rocks, NASA's Mars rovers may have unlocked the key to understanding the fate of the Red Planet's climate.