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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Short-lived radioisotopes such as aluminum-26 influenced early solar system heat, water retention and the formation of Earth-like rocky planets, according to meteorite analyses and models.

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

Cheng credits his co-authors' preexisting relationships with the Indigenous communities. Herman-Mercer has worked for years ...

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

NASA's Artemis II mission, set to launch on Feb. 6, will send four astronauts farther from Earth than any human has traveled ...