The gravitational interaction between the Earth and Moon has led to one hemisphere of the Moon being locked facing away from ...

GOES, short for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, is a NOAA-run suite of 19 satellites that have spent five ...

Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

Spartanburg's newest downtown amenity: a 135-seat planetarium theater with 50-foot domed screen. The facility also includes ...

Dark matter makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe. It neither emits nor absorbs light, making it invisible ...

For decades, astronomers have looked to the outer reaches of the cosmos for answers to our most fundamental questions: Where ...

Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping ...

Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, the young solar system was a swirling cloud of gas and dust that formed the first asteroids ...

Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A ...

Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental ...

Per the ESA, this phenomenon can be best explained by strange behaviors far within the Earth at the boundary where the Earth's liquid outer core meets the rocky mantle layer. This boundary, referred ...

Extreme heat deep in Earth’s crust forged the strong, stable continents that have endured for billions of years.