If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid that ...

These year-to-year fluctuations mean climate scientists don’t view a single year exceeding ... a single month or year at 1.5°C global warming may signify Earth is entering a long-term breach ...

A groundbreaking X-ray imager is on its way to revolutionize our understanding of Earth's magnetic defenses. This ...

Of the approximately 85,000 individual studies ever published on policy instruments for mitigating global heating, a good quarter are from 2020 or ... Feb. 10, 2025 — Kelp is being negatively ...

How much more will the Earth warm? How will Earth respond? Answering these questions is perhaps the most significant scientific challenge of our time. Global warming is the unusually rapid increase in ...

Feb. 10, 2025 — Earth's inner core is undergoing structural transformation. Located 3,000 miles below the Earth's surface, the inner core is anchored by gravity within the molten liquid outer core.

For example, bubbles of air in glacial ice trap tiny samples of Earth’s atmosphere, giving scientists a history of greenhouse gases that stretches back more than 800,000 years. The chemical make-up of ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global winter that affects our planet for years.

The surprising January heat record coincides with a new study by a climate science heavyweight, former top NASA scientist ...

China currently dominates global rare earth production, accounting for over 69% in 2023. Credit: Ivan Marc via Shutterstock. The global rare earths industry is a complex landscape dominated by China, ...