In early July 2025, an extraordinary event in Earth’s upper atmosphere was photographed by astronauts aboard the ...

Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

This extraordinary event is known as a sprite — or “farfadet” in French — one of the rarest forms of Transient Luminous ...

Astronaut Ron Garan, who spent 178 days in space, has shared the big 'lie' he realised about Earth after seeing it from up ...

The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting ...

A team from the University of Tokyo, led by visiting researcher Gaku Nishiyama, realized that the instrument would be able to ...

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

New research reveals Antarctic sea ice has hit record lows three times since 2017, creating cascading effects on global ...

Earth is expected to spin slightly faster on three specific days in July and August: July 9, July 22 and August 5. This could ...

New research shows how Mars may have undone its own habitability, while Earth stayed stable enough to support life.

Essentially, gas pistoning is a shallow, degassing-driven rise and fall of a lava surface. Often these pistons occur in ...

Northern peatlands could seriously complicate efforts to cool the planet, especially after a temporary overshoot of the 1.5°C ...