New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of Earth's formation and potentially calls ...

The study, published in the journal Physical Review Research, builds on work the team conducted back in 2016 and an idea ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

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

American researchers have measured a tiny electrical voltage by exploiting Earth's magnetic field in the planet's rotational motion. This discovery, though modest, revives a scientific debate ...

An international team, including University of Geneva researchers, discovered a super-Earth named TOI-512 b orbiting a star ...

Fossil fuels powered the industrial revolution. Would aliens need a similar power source to jump-start a technical revolution ...

Nvidia says severe weather-related events have caused a $2 trillion impact on the global economy over the last decade, and better forecasts could be one ...

Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally restarting land-based life on our planet and setting the stage for humans to ...

On any given night, weather permitting, you can spot at least one bright planet in the sky ... Venus and Mercury orbit closer to the sun than Earth, meaning they orbit much quicker than other ...

These conjunctions aren't rare, but they do get rarer with each planet added to the chain. The three innermost planets — Mercury, Venus and Earth — align within 3.6 degrees in the sky every 39 ...

Each planet in our solar system takes a different amount of time to complete one orbit around the sun. For example, Mercury, being closest to the sun, takes just 88 Earth days to complete one orbit.