A study led by researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide has revealed how the breakup of an ...

When we hear the word “methane,” we often think of natural gas, which heats homes, propels cars, and helps fuels fires for ...

As missions prepare to visit ocean worlds like Enceladus and Europa, new findings show scientists must first learn to ...

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human ...

NASA’s TESS has uncovered three Earth-sized planets orbiting twin suns, defying long-held beliefs that binary systems are too ...

Scientists reveal how the DART mission asteroid impact blasted 35 million pounds of debris and changed Dimorphos’ orbit. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moon, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.

Scientists have traced the origins of complex life to the breakup of the supercontinent Nuna 1.5 billion years ago. This ...

Astronomers using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi Island have identified a rare, ancient ...

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of ...

Planetary dysregulation refers to human actions, which stop planet Earth from self-regulating its health. An unhealthy planet ...