Two years ago, perhaps inspired by Dr. Wilson, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity laid out a global effort ...

Most of humanity will never get a first-person view of this magnificent sight. But the rare few that experience the wonder of ...

Every year, our planet makes one full trip around the Sun. And while that means we’re already moving at breakneck speeds, ...

Research shows zinc from meteorites played a key role in delivering volatile elements that helped create life on Earth.

It's a small world after all, because today, we're shrinking Earth to the size of Pluto. But if our planet was this tiny, how ...

Flip Flop Tens of thousands of years ago, the Earth's magnetic field flipped — and now, scientists have recreated the ...

But a new NASA study may have found a clue that one is orbiting a planet some 635 light-years from Earth. The inference comes ...

Full Steam Ahead NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was used to spot a completely new kind of alien planet: a watery, ...

Researchers found evidence from astroid craters that Earth may have had a ring, like Saturn, formed 466 million years ago.

There’s a rare object in the skies over Colorado this week. Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will be visible just over the western ...

In 6 billion years, the sun will expand into a red giant. That process should consume Mercury, and maybe Venus. For a long ...

NASA is developing plans to defend Earth against potential "planet killer" asteroids by considering launching a large fleet of spacecraft or even using a nuclear device to deflect ...