In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly ...

Choose your fighter for the origin of water on Earth! Was it always here or did it come to this planet from somewhere else in ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field.

Zipping toward Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, the asteroid is due to make its closest approach on Tuesday.

Many tipping elements are now well-known: the Amazon rainforest, the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

A new study reveals that microplastics are impairing the oceans' ability to absorb carbon dioxide, a process scientists find ...

Here's how the astronomical phenomenon influences our planet—from the length of our seasons to the way Earth moves through ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

WASHINGTON — Array Labs, a Silicon Valley startup developing radar-based Earth observation satellites, announced Jan. 5 it ...

The Baltimore Sun considered a few outstanding scenarios that raise the question: can humanity survive long enough to figure ...

SpainSat NG-2 was the second military communications satellite launched for Spain last year. It was on its way to an ...