NASA has selected UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography to lead the Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) satellite mission, which will monitor land, vegetation, ice sheets ...

Earth’s magnetic field and atmospheric oxygen appear to have moved in sync for half a billion years, pointing to a surprising connection between the planet’s deep interior and life-supporting ...

NASA astronauts talk about returning to the lunar surface not as a nostalgic repeat of Apollo, but as a strategic necessity. They argue that the Moon is the only nearby world where humans have already ...

Hubble observations reveal a giant, turbulent planet-forming disk that may reshape theories of how planetary systems develop.

Astronomers have identified a frozen, Earth-sized world circling a nearby sunlike star, a find that sharpens the search for planets that resemble our own while underscoring how rare truly temperate ...

NASA's infrared telescope SPHEREx captured stunning images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it exited the solar system.

The case that Venus is harboring enormous lava tubes continues to build. A recent paper suggests they could measure up to ...

A new candidate exoplanet appears to almost uncanny similarities to Earth — but may differ in at least one major way.

The Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) satellite is one of two next generation satellites selected by NASA to help ...

Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, and Venus—will appear in the sky together in a special planet parade on Feb. 28.

The Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) satellite is one of two next generation satellites selected by NASA to help better understand Earth and improve capabilities to foresee environmental events ...

A new study has revealed that the iconic Black Beauty meteorite contains much more hidden water than previously suspected. The rock, which fell to Earth from Mars, could reveal clues about the Red ...