Sea ice plays many important roles for the global climate: Its white surface can reflect energy back into space, helping the ...

Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet ...

The Arctic Ocean likely had the smallest winter ice cover in 47 years of satellite records this season, with just 5.53 ...

The new phase comes in the form of a pattern of electron spins—half of which are highly ordered, or "cold", and the rest of ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from the sun. Since the discovery of more Pluto-sized dwarf planets, that ...

A surprising chemical difference between Pluto and Sedna, another dwarf planet in the distant Kuiper Belt ... One assumed ...

It’s the kind of event that when it happens, you leave whatever you’re doing,” said Patricia Esquete, the expedition’s chief scientist.

Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...

As the images came back from New Horizons in 2015, showing us Pluto for the very first time, the dramatic shots of the dwarf planet inspired the imaginations of billions. Having actually seen the ...

Despite no longer being a planet, Pluto is still loved by millions around the world. And, for a good reason, it is a fascinating object. With a surface covered with mountains, valleys, plains ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — When it comes to professional sports and player contracts, in the end it’s often about the money.