NASA's record-setting spacecraft was just 3.8 million miles from the sun's surface—the closest any human-made object has ever ...

The famed astrophysicist Carl Sagan and former President Jimmy Carter shared a fundamental understanding about the fragility ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed.

According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent ...

Rising global temperatures of 1.5 °C, 3 °C, and 4.5 °C will shorten stratification by 0.7, 4.6, and 6.9 days, and lengthen overturning by 0.7, 4.2, and 8 days annually by 2096 in the ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies offering crucial insights into the solar system’s formation.

Inner dark comets can be found within the inner solar system, which includes the planets Earth, Venus, Mars and Mercury, and move in nearly circular orbits around the sun. The celestial objects ...

Solar panels can save money on electric bills, but a solar panel system requires a steep upfront investment — $30,000 for the average system including installation ...

The skeletal system comprises 206 bones and has two main parts: the axial skeleton and the appendicular skeleton. The skeletal system includes your bones, ligaments that attach bone to bone, and ...

An Earth system model (ESM) is a type of climate model ... in shaping the planet's climate as it affects the distribution of solar radiation between the equator and the poles.

and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), where massive amounts of solar material are ejected into space. “Both can cause disturbances to Earth, especially to high technology,” Tiar explained. Solar flares ...