The Moon exerts a constant physical influence on Earth through gravity, light, and orbital interaction. Its mass shapes ocean ...

Scientists have known that Mars is rich in strange chemicals, especially chlorine-based compounds found by orbiters, rovers, ...

James Dyke is an associate professor of earth system science and assistant director of the Global Systems Institute at the ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

A new study reveals that microplastics are impairing the oceans' ability to absorb carbon dioxide, a process scientists find ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

Europa has a deep ocean, but a new study suggests its seafloor may be too quiet to supply the energy life needs to survive.

Microplastics could be disrupting how oceans absorb and store carbon, potentially undermining a natural buffer that helps ...

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar ...

From the ISS, NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured rare purple lightning and mysterious upper-atmosphere flashes above massive ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...