Miles of air cover Earth. The boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space, the Kármán line, is about 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the planet's surface. However, about 99.9% of the mass of ...

Tufts’ Department of Earth and Climate Sciences will introduce two new majors, Earth Science and Climate Science, along with ...

Earlier this year, a caver was poring over satellite images of the Nullarbor Plain when he came across something unexpected: ...

Launched in July 2022, NASA's EMIT mission aboard the International Space Station has evolved from mapping minerals in ...

More generally, studying particles from outer space often demands audacious proposals, especially ones that make use of the ...

An 11-kilometre long tornado scar was discovered on the Nullarbor Plain. Without the power of technology, it would have gone ...

This 2023 satellite photo shows New Zealand's Mount Taranaki, which is surrounded by a near-perfect circle of deformed trees. The volcano was recently granted the same legal rights as a person.

Live updates from Monday's early morning SpaceX Starlink 12-1 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral ...

Are cities around the world taking steps to provide adequate canopy cover from available trees to help mitigate increased ...

Up to two thirds of the world's temperate rainforests could fall victim to climate change by the year 2100 according to a new study.

The Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory captured a pulsar in the Guitar Nebula living out its rock star ...

Too late to save the ivory-billed woodpecker, Arthur Allen changed science forever with his seemingly simple idea ...