Earth’s magnetic field has long been framed as a planetary force field, a protective bubble that keeps the worst of the Sun’s ...

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my ...

The world’s biggest Earth science conference had a shocking backdrop this year, with the Trump administration announcing that ...

NASA and its commercial partners are conducting demonstrations of advanced satellite relay capabilities supporting near-Earth science missions as part of the Communications Services Project.

Rising global emissions of hydrogen over the past three decades have added to the planet's warming temperatures and amplified ...

A Harvard University astrophysicist has sparked a furious debate by warning he cannot rule out that extraterrestrials are ...

Cosmic “touchdown airbursts” — explosions of comets or asteroids above Earth’s surface — may be far more common and destructive than previously thought, according to new research. Unlike ...

Lawmakers defended NASA research efforts Wednesday at a hearing on President Donald Trump's choice to lead the space agency.

New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

Researchers are keeping an eye on the building-sized asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon seven years from now.

The mystifying 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet is blazing toward Earth and will soon come as close to our planet as it ever will.