Each year, the world's leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet is changing. Their ...

On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a cosmic ray detector, was designed to measure the radiation environment in Earth ...

Discover some of the deepest and most mysterious holes on Earth.

Sediments from Scotland hint that ocean-atmosphere interactions continued more than 600 million years ago despite widespread ice.

A NASA planetary defense officer warns thousands of near-Earth asteroids capable of destroying a city remain undetected.

Researchers have proposed that changes in Earth's ionosphere could trigger electrical forces that nudge fragile areas of the crust into creating an earthquake.

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Scientists say they have drilled deeper than ever beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, peering back millions of years to ...

Researchers investigating the origin of complex life on Earth might have just made a major breakthrough. The origin of ...

Earth faces a significant threat from thousands of undetected asteroids capable of destroying cities. NASA's planetary defence chief warns that current systems cannot reliably stop these 'city-killers ...

Scientists think they’ve found a way to investigate the creation of cell membranes and DNA genomes that gave rise to the last universal common ancestor.

At the edge of the Antarctic Peninsula, far from research stations and tourist routes, a small team collected seawater in conditions that are not easi.