When four astronauts begin a historic trip around the moon as soon as February 6, they’ll climb aboard NASA’s 16.5-foot-wide Orion spacecraft with the understanding that it has ...

Tens of millions of people are in the path of a major winter storm. Federal cuts threaten efforts to understand the causes of ...

NASA will host two astronauts at 10 a.m. CST Friday, Jan. 23, for a media opportunity at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight ...

NASA may build spacecraft and explore distant worlds, but the agency also pays close attention to how science is portrayed on ...

Cancelled too soon, Earth 2 was gritty, serialized sci-fi before TV was ready for it. Thirty years later, it still stings.

A bullet-speed experiment reveals that the Earth's inner core may be softer and more dynamic than previously thought.

After 167 days in space, the crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission will hold a news conference at 2:15 p.m. EST, ...

Billions of years ago, Earth was an uninhabitable rock covered in magma. Scientists are still working to decipher the tale of how it transformed into a blue and green orb teeming with life. However, ...

Earth's seasons look very different at locations not far from each other, 20 years' worth of satellite data reveals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The world’s biggest Earth science conference had a shocking backdrop this year, with the Trump administration announcing that it plans to close an iconic climate research lab. Suffice to say, that ...

Russia’s descent from the 1991 revolution to Vladimir Putin’s atavistic system is hardly a one-off. Revolutions disappoint. Most are followed by restorations, social consciousness being harder to ...

New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through a solid iron lattice. This unusual behavior makes the core soft, matching ...