When large masses of water are moved from one place to another, this changes the shape of Earth and leads to a phenomenon ...

Earth’s magnetic shield protects us from the Sun’s deadly solar wind—except at the polar cusps, where energy funnels straight toward Earth. NASA’s TRACERS mission will send two spacecraft through ...

A team of scientists from the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP), Pusan National University in South Korea and the Alfred Wegener Institute, ...

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

On average, from the point of view of the sun, the Earth completes one full rotation around its axis every 24 hours or 86,400 seconds, give or take a few milliseconds. A millisecond (ms) is 0.001 of a ...

Former NFL tight end Jimmy Graham has conquered a new frontier -- not on the football field, but across the frigid waters of ...

NASA has officially revealed three new scientific instruments that will be mounted on Artemis mission's lunar rover and ...

Stratospheric polar vortex changes still trigger brutal U.S. winter cold snaps and extreme weather despite a warming climate.

The polar regions offer some of the harshest and most dynamic ecosystems on Earth. These areas are defined by their extreme ...

At the bottom of the world lies a region as magnificent as it is misunderstood: Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Harsh, ...

Researchers measuring the salinity of the Southern Ocean did find unexpected results, but some online reports got the details ...

The Lunar Terrain Vehicle is part of NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to send astronauts back to the moon for the first ...