Scientists are reconsidering old information about Uranus. NPR's Scott Simon explains the problem with photos taken of the ...

The daisy world model describes a hypothetical planet that self-regulates, maintaining a delicate balance involving its ...

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk ...

UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen urges nations to adopt circular economy strategies to meet climate targets and address ...

Solar and cosmochemical data indicate high levels of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in the Sun. Researchers have unveiled a new ...

Researchers are calling for a 'resilience index' to be used as an indicator of policy success instead of the current focus on GDP. They say that GDP ignores the wider implications of development and ...

Plastic pollution impacts all planetary boundaries, affecting the environment and health on a global scale. Researchers call ...

Some minerals in lava could suggest water is nearby.

The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, will pass Earth at a distance of about 273,000 miles, just further than the moon's 238,900-mile ...

The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...