Astronomers at the Complutense University of Madrid first spotted this intriguing event using a powerful telescope in ...

The Earth’s natural resources are enormous but not infinite. A lack of some rare minerals can hinder technological ...

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 ...

Some minerals in lava could suggest water is nearby.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...

The scary parts of solar geoengineering don’t mean that we shouldn’t study it at all to accurately quantify the risks and ...

It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth’s hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of basalt-based spectral signatures that not only will help reveal the ...

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...