New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

What if you could take a picture of every gene inside a living organism—not with light, but with DNA itself? Scientists at ...

Thermal emission measurements from the exoplanet Trappist-1 b suggest two plausible yet contradictory scenarios ...

Does it rain diamonds on Neptune and Uranus? Scientists uncover how extreme pressure and temperature deep inside these ice giants create a continuous diamond rain.

Planetary is using magnesium oxide to create that vacuum. When dissolved into seawater, it transforms carbon dioxide from a ...

The same wave in the jet stream can lead to strong winds, blowing dust and fire danger in one region, while triggering a ...

Windstorms can seem like they come out of nowhere, hitting with a sudden blast. They might be hundreds of miles long, ...

Meteorologist James Spann appeals to his 1.3 million Facebook followers to support the agency that produces the data he ...

Space is one of the most dangerous frontiers, yet astronauts have repeatedly defied death through skill, technology, and ...