The creation of an Earth sciences PRO which will bring together NIWA and ... As part of the reforms a new Prime Minister’s Science, Innovation and Technology Advisory Council will provide strategic ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in ... which itself is 318 times greater than Earth's mass—may have swept through our solar system about 4 billion years in the past.

Couldn’t we all do with a little stress reduction? Especially since all seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment.

Don't let the diagrams fool you, our Solar System's orbits aren't perfectly circular or flat. (Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Even given the right galactic alignments, the odds that ...

The Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EEAS ... Before starting his Ph.D. in atmospheric science at UMass Lowell, Tyler Harrington interned at the Federal Aviation ...

From the flamboyant blossoms and birds of rainforests to the living rainbows of coral reefs, Earth’s surface is ... in a study recently published in Science Advances. Microbes have adapted ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade ... Mercury, which is closest to the sun, takes about 88 Earth days to complete an orbit, while Neptune, which is most distant, takes ...

roughly the average distance from Earth to the sun.) Although most simulations created conditions very unlike the current solar system, the researchers found that in approximately 1% of the ...

Credit: NAOJ The James Webb Space Telescope has provided groundbreaking insights into a new type of exoplanet, fundamentally different from those in our Solar System, by piercing through thick cloud ...

Plate tectonics give rise to Earth ... solar system exhibit plate tectonics today. Why is our world different? "We don't know for sure," Bradford Foley, a geodynamicist at Penn State, told Live ...