Clouds play an important role in determining the current and future temperature and global warming rate of the Earth. They simultaneously cool the Earth by reflecting sunlight and warm the planet by ...

A rocky exoplanet outside the Earth's solar system may have an atmosphere, according to new evidence gathered by NASA ...

Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an ...

Researchers found that eroded lava rubble beneath the South Atlantic can trap enormous amounts of CO2 for tens of millions of ...

Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky ...

A conflict-driven reroute of international ships exposed how dramatically cleaner fuel reduces cloud formation.

Chinese infiltration of U.S. universities has been a focus of the Trump administration, producing charges in cases linked to ...

For thirty years, SOHO has delivered an unprecedented, nearly unbroken view of the Sun, surviving multiple near-catastrophic ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to exist on Bennu, a small asteroid that swings by our planet about every six ...

NASA is partnering with the European Space Agency on one and with the Indian Space Research Organization on the other.

Boeing and NASA have agreed to keep astronauts off the company's next Starliner flight. Monday's announcement comes eight months after the first and only Starliner crew returned to Earth aboard SpaceX ...

This amazing astronaut photo shows the bizarre whale-like shape of a Belizean tropical island. The coral-reef-covered structure is home to the Great Blue Hole, one of the deepest marine sinkholes on ...