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

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

Scientists are uncovering signs that Earth has been hit by powerful cosmic blasts that leave little trace on the surface yet ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

It was thought that complex cells couldn’t survive above a certain temperature, but a tiny amoeba has proven that assumption ...

Chinese researchers have discovered that interstitial carbon in iron-carbon alloys behaves in a superionic, liquid-like state ...

On Monday, Duncan Watson-Parris closed his welcoming remarks on the first meeting of the GAIA Initiative with an inviting ...

Though the exact length of a "stadia" is unknown, his measurement is thought to be accurate to within one percent of the ...

This week may go down as the beginning of one of those calendar-compressing occasions, for it was when LandSpace became the ...

Cornell’s CU GeoData project team brings together engineering and earth science students to design and deploy low-cost ...

Arianespace launched a Vega C, sending South Korea's KOMPSAT-7 satellite into Earth orbit, the sixth flight by the ...

Humans are responsible for some of the wobble in Earth's spin. Since 1899, the Earth's axis of spin has shifted about 34 feet (10.5 meters). Now, research quantifies the reasons why and finds that a ...