The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

Neptune is called an “ice giant” because it’s mostly made of a thick, slushy mix of water, methane, and ammonia, which ...

Around 252 million years ago, Earth went through its most devastating extinction event, the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction ...

What color is moonlight typically, and what other colors can moonlight look like from our perspective on Earth?

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

Super pollutants like methane and black carbon cause almost half of global warming but only last days to years in the ...

Mercury moves super fast around the Sun, finishing its year in just 88 Earth days. The planet has crazy temperature swings, ...

For decades, scientists have struggled to see the outermost layer of the Sun, called the corona, with enough detail to unlock ...

Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, located about ...

A super-Earth that could explain the universe's mysterious lack of certain exoplanets has been found by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the planet-measuring ESPRESSO ...

Compare that to Earth, where the mass-fraction of water is just 0.02%. Yet if TOI-152b had been reduced by stellar radiation, there would be no water or atmosphere left at all.