McDowell’s findings invite us to re-examine our assumptions and remind us that even the "final frontier" has some wiggle room ...

Nearly three-fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese ...

According to scientists, this ambipolar electric field is thought to be just as crucial to Earth as both gravity and ...

For over half a century, scientists suspected a quiet but powerful electric field might be influencing Earth’s upper ...

Jovian storms can rework the whole chemical makeup of Jupiter's deep atmosphere by picking up ammonia from and dropping it ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...