Solar activity could cause stronger-than-usual auroras, making the northern lights visible in more U.S. regions than usual.

Reservoirs of hydrogen gas that form naturally in Earth's crust could help humans decarbonize. The challenge now is finding ...

UC Davis engineers have invented a Stirling engine that captures Earth’s escaping heat to generate power from the night sky.

For roughly 2 billion years of Earth's early history, the atmosphere contained no oxygen, the essential ingredient required ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

The image shows a good example of the phenomenon Some of the best views of Earth come from beyond our home planet, as ...

The Earth's tail is known as the "magnetotail". Though it is generally a permanent feature, it is at the whims of the solar ...

EPA has scrubbed references to people’s contribution to rising temperatures from some of its climate change webpages. The ...

Coral reefs are famous for supporting colorful marine life, but new research reveals they have shaped something much larger: ...

Thanks to a recent geomagnetic storm, some Americans will be able to see the northern lights on Dec. 8 and Dec. 9.

More research is needed before scientists can determine whether the recently observed methane signatures point to the presence of an atmosphere or are simply the result of contamination from the host ...

The RISTRETTO project, dedicated to observing Proxima b –the closest exoplanet to the Solar System — is reaching a new milestone: several key components of this high-precision spectrograph have been ...