Remembered as a pioneering atmospheric scientist who bridged planetary science, climate policy, and undergraduate education, ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This ...

A new NASA study using Apollo lunar soil samples challenges a long-held theory. It suggests meteorites were not the primary ...

Falling space junk is becoming a real-world hazard, and scientists have found a clever new way to track it using instruments ...

The Earth channels cosmic power in the form of solar energy. The coming winter superstorm shows just what havoc that power ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth’s history could have delivered ...

A pull in the right direction ...

The craters bear the names of astronomers who revolutionized our understanding of the night sky.

Webb data explains how heat-formed crystal minerals end up in icy comets by tracking their journey around a young, actively forming star.

Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—pose a risk to humans when they fall to ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

When one considers the term “Continent of Science,” one may think of an area filled with the presence of universities or other hubs of science or tech.