Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

The Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EEAS ... William Lefebvre is learning that environmental science is also an art. UMass Lowell has enabled me to expand sustainability ...

The dataset covers the period between September 2004 and December 2023 and will enable researchers to explore and model some ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...

Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps moving. Here’s what to know.

It is thus only fitting for a goddess to be named for none other than the door hinge: Cardea. And now, thanks to Clay ...

Advanced observatories, such as the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ... moving with respect to the Earth.” Vishnu Reddy, a professor of planetary science at the University of ...

The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses no danger to Earth. It joins another known lunar asteroid ...

Instead of relying on energy-hungry reactors to generate high temperatures and pressure, researchers are looking underground at Earth's natural heat and forces to cook up ammonia for fertilizer. In a ...