Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of ...

China has opened up the first round of applications for researchers who wish to use some of the Chang'e 6 lunar far side ...

Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a slightly oblate spheroid, or an ellipsoid. This means it is a little bit wider ...

Data from NISAR will improve our understanding of such phenomena as earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides, as well as damage ...

The new study suggests that the planet experienced a swift and intense melting phase following the last global ice age. At ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

SEATTLE — For the second year in a row, Earth is on track to set a new record for hot weather. According to the European ...

2024 may be a record-shattering year of intense heat, not just for us humans, but also for our planet. In this very year, we ...

October saw near-record temperatures, as 2024 looks to be the hottest year ever. This year is "virtually certain" to be the warmest on record, and the first year to climb 2.7 F on average above ...

Plastic pollution affects fundamental Earth systems, contributing to almost every pressing global environmental challenge.

World leaders will gather for about two weeks in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan starting Monday, with the goal of figuring out how much wealthy countries should pay to help developing ...