Earth’s tiny, temporary moons could become easy targets for sample-return missions. And we'll likely find more of them soon, thanks to the Rubin telescope.

A solar eclipse recorded more than 2,700 years ago is revealing surprising secrets about Earth's rotation and the Sun's ancient behavior. By correcting an eight-kilometer error in the location of an ...

Earth, the water planet. Image via NASA. It’s a bit of a blind spot in the community. When people measure the [deuterium-to-hydrogen] ratio in ocean water and they see that it is pretty close to what ...

New computer simulations reveal an unexpected interaction between the solar wind and Earth’s magnetic shield. Credit: Stock.

Climate change pushed the Earth's environmental system to, and perhaps beyond, its limits in 2026, as several of its "vital signs" reached record extremes, researchers said in a new report on the ...

Video: Watch Earth Detecting Earth animation video by Zayna Sheikh narrated by Seth Shostak. Watch on YouTube. February 3, 2025, Mountain View, CA – A research team led by Dr. Sofia Sheikh of the SETI ...

The Earth’s magnetic field plays a big role in protecting people from hazardous radiation and geomagnetic activity that could affect satellite communication and the operation of power grids. And it ...

Where do the hydrogen and oxygen that make up the earth’s water come from? NASA Goddard/Flickr, CC BY Water is essential to life as we know it and it seems completely normal to have water all around ...