A UT San Antonio-led international research team has identified chitin, the primary organic component of modern crab shells ...

NASA has selected two Earth science missions for development, one focused on studying the atmosphere and the other on terrestrial ecosystems and ice.

Deep inside Earth, two massive hot rock structures have been quietly shaping the planet’s magnetic field for millions of ...

When NASA’s twin Voyager probes left Earth in 1977, they carried computers weaker than a hand calculator and a modest goal of ...

Earth's radiation budget is a core process of the Earth-atmosphere system, closely linked to global climate and environmental ...

Chances are that all your encounters with frozen water—while trudging through slushy winter streets, perhaps, or treating yourself to cool summer lemonades—have been confined to one structural form of ...

“Looking at things at a very, very fast rate allows us to observe weird and wonderful phenomena,” Salamat says, calling the ...

The announcement arrived without technical diagrams or timelines laid out in detail. Instead, it came through a renewed agreement. On Tuesday, NASA and the US Department of Energy confirmed they are ...

Bill Gates's recent climate letter argues we must prioritize human welfare over emissions reduction, framing them as competing investments rather than the same opportunity. As someone who experienced ...

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, ...

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 ...

Dec. 19 (UPI) --Comet 3I/ATLAS passed its nearest point to Earth early Friday and approaching within 168 million miles. After its brief visit Friday the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS will head back ...