Rocket Lab plans to launch an Earth-observing radar satellite this morning (Dec. 20), and you can watch it live. An Electron ...

EU researchers are braving extreme Arctic conditions to shed light on snow's crucial role in Earth's climate system.

Santa Claus will have to be "mirroring" on his sleigh ride around the world. NASA has warned of a gigantic asteroid that will pass close to Earth on Ch ...

Material from asteroid Ryugu riddled with earthly microbes provides a cautionary tale for scientists seeking signs of alien ...

A team of international scientists has unveiled groundbreaking research on the origins of lunar water, offering insights that ...

Life on our planet has experienced many mass extinctions over its 4.5 billion years. Scientists see evidence for at least ...

An asteroid orbiting near our planet that temporarily became our second moon seems to have come from the actual moon, hinting ...

Heat from tidal forces remelted the Moon’s crust, says new reesarch, which may explain why the Moon is older than some ...

A magnitude-3.7 earthquake was reported near the village of Hāna on the Island of Maui at 8:44 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 19. The ...

If climate modellers’ accumulated knowledge and spiffy models could not explain what had just happened, it might mean that ...

Climatologists are virtually certain that 2024 will end as Earth's hottest year on record, according to the European climate ...