A group of astronauts whizzing around Earth from orbit are getting some pretty spectacular views of our planet's poles – and ...

A newly published model of early Earth, out July 30 in Nature, may have stumbled upon the answer. The model shows how Earth's first half billion years were unbelievably turbulent, with our planet ...

worlds in our solar system and beyond! Scientists now think the Earth’s story began around 4.6 billion years ago in a disk-shaped cloud of dust and gas rotating around the early sun, made up of ...

A crew of four international spacefarers on a private mission will soon seek to become the first humans to travel over ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows ... impact could have played a role in shaping early Earth’s crust by pushing one part of the ...

This problem of why the Earth was not heavily glaciated despite weak solar radiation has become known as the 'faint early Sun paradox'. For close to forty years, several solutions have been ...

If they happen to spray out in Earth’s direction, CMEs can cause geomagnetic storms that damage power systems on the ground or spacecraft in orbit. And solar flare radiation itself can disrupt ...