Solar dust could be influencing how the corona shines.

New observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope suggest that 55 Cancri e, a rocky exoplanet about 41 light-years away ...

In 2018, Chinese state media announced one of the most ambitious weather engineering projects ever proposed, an attempt to ...

A tiny icy object orbiting beyond Neptune has surprised astronomers by displaying an atmosphere that, according to current ...

Could humans spread Earth life beyond our planet? Astrobiologists explain where extremophiles might survive and why the risks are enormous.

Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...

Stretching from the Atlantic coast of Senegal to the shores of Djibouti on the Red Sea, Africa is undertaking one of the most ...

A proposed technique to counter global warming by spraying sun-reflecting particles near the poles would cause commercial ...

Ammonia rarely makes headlines, but much of modern life depends on it. The compound of nitrogen and hydrogen is the key ingredient in the fertilizers that help feed roughly half of the world's ...

In recent years, the frequency of weather-related natural disasters—cyclones, torrential rains, floods—has increased as a consequence of global warming. These disasters cause billions of dollars in ...

The Swift Boost Mission will use a robotic servicing craft to grab and raise into a higher orbit the Swift Observatory before it falls into the Earth’s atmosphere ...

AltCarbon has scaled its enhanced rock weathering experiment from a 300-acre pilot to 60,000 acres and over 35,000 farmers ...