Among the most fascinating phenomena are gamma rays, the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation. Recently, ...

Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese ...

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

According to scientists, this ambipolar electric field is thought to be just as crucial to Earth as both gravity and ...

A mission will deliver rock and soil from Mars to laboratories on Earth in the 2030s. Mars Sample Return (MSR) is led by NASA ...

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

For over half a century, scientists suspected a quiet but powerful electric field might be influencing Earth’s upper ...

Researchers with the U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have successfully used Earth's atmosphere as a sensor to detect a distant disturbance. But researchers with ...

The accelerated accumulation of space debris has already raised the real possibility of a "collision cascading" effect called ...