The nova can be seen with the naked eye for upward of a week after it happens. For that period, it'll seem like a new star ...

Offering a foretaste of what's to come once it is fully commissioned, ESA's EarthCARE satellite has returned the first images ...

"This was an extraordinary opportunity to investigate the physical properties and obtain detailed images of a near-Earth ...

The new moon of July 2024 occurs today as Earth reaches its farthest point from the sun, known as aphelion. The new moon ...

Scientists say they’ve confirmed Earth’s inner core has been slowing down. Here’s what it could mean — and why the topic has ...

Some 40 million years before the dinosaurs dominated Earth, a different sort of apex predator roamed the Gondwana ...

California’s Death Valley could break its own century-old record as the hottest place on Earth amid a blistering and ...

At aphelion, Earth’s distance from the sun is about 94.5 million miles. Six months later, at the start of January in the ...

Earth system models (ESMs) help us understand climate and environmental changes. With advances in computing power, ESMs can ...

All three asteroids were captured by NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar, a 230-foot-wide (70-meter) radio antenna near ...

Because most things about Earth change so slowly, it's difficult to imagine them being any different in the past. But Earth's ...