Efforts to clean up air pollution in China and across East Asia may have inadvertently contributed to a spike in global warming, a new study has found.

More than half of the world's waste — 59% in fact — ends up in landfills. In the US, they are the third largest source of anthropogenic methane emissions, a gas 25 times more potent than carbon ...

Satellites circling Earth have many different functions, including navigation, communications and Earth observation. About 8% ...

The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...

"The existence of any vesicles on Titan would demonstrate an increase in order and complexity, which are conditions necessary ...

China’s smog reducing efforts improved public health - but may have accelerated global warming by reducing sunlight-reflecting aerosols.

The rebate applications come as Continental, oil and gas trade groups and Republican attorneys general continue to fight the ...

For decades, scientists believed water was the essential cradle for life. But new research suggests life’s building blocks ...

WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...

It is not a moment too soon to be connecting the dots between climate pollution and chaotic weather so that we can solve the ...

Conor Nixon, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, says that finding vesicles on Titan would show an ...

NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn’s moon Titan.