The study challenges a century-old theory that the celestial bodies delivered the molecular “building blocks” for life on the planet.
Currently located around 200 miles above Earth, NASA says Swift is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere later this year, potentially around November.
For more than a century, scientists have treated Antarctica’s environments as windows into worlds beyond Earth.
European and Chinese teams have released the first observations from the Smile spacecraft showing an auroral substorm.
An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the Earth.
Today, China controls the vast majority of rare earths processing. That gives it enormous political leverage, and its trade truce with the US involving those minerals expires Nov. 10, 2026.
“Earth Notes” is an outgrowth of a deep ecology discussion group. Writers reflect a delight in, and concern for, the earth and are individuall…
Berry’s belief that humans have a responsibility to care for God’s creation traces back to the Book of Genesis. So does an opposing argument for environmental exploitation.
Each image contains X-ray data from Chandra that has been collected across the observatory's decades in space.
