Earth is taking in more energy than it releases back to space—a growing "energy imbalance" that is fueling global warming. A ...

Learn how we know the Earth is round, and the science behind the shape of our gravitational field.

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...

A Flat Earther attempts to fold a flat map over a globe to prove the Earth is not curved. The demonstration seems ...

NASA’s Carruthers mission will film Earth’s elusive exosphere to understand space weather, atmospheric escape, and planetary habitability. A NASA mission aims to photograph a feature of Earth that is ...

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...

Flat earth” — the idea that we’re not in fact living on a sphere, but rather on a dirt pizza, hanging stationary in space ...

Far beyond the reach of any probe, astronomers have found a gas giant whose atmosphere behaves less like a familiar planet and more like a special effect from a big-budget space epic. Orbiting a ...

Astronomers have discovered a carbon-rich exoplanet with a bizarre atmosphere and shape, orbiting a neutron star under extreme conditions that challenge current models of planetary formation. Scientis ...

Earth isn’t a perfect sphere. The rotation of our planet causes it to bulge ever so slightly at the equator, making it about ...

The discovery marks a significant moment for a theory that was once dismissed as fringe science but is now gaining serious scientific traction. Panspermia is far from a modern invention. The concept ...

Pulsars emit a lot of radiation, in particular high-energy gamma-rays and radio waves pulses. That light is invisible to JWST ...