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, ...

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

The UK Met Office has given storms forenames for the past decade as part of an effort to raise public awareness of extreme ...

Moonlight's colour varies. It depends on Earth's atmosphere. The Moon reflects sunlight. Atmospheric particles scatter light.

The Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) mission aims to map auroral electrojets, improving scientific models of space ...

The bold question-askers at What If explain why a flat Earth couldn’t support an atmosphere or sustain life as we know it.

Nitriles are a notable subset of nitrogen-bearing molecules detected within the interstellar medium (ISM). The cyano group (C≡N) enables these species to serve as potential chemical precursors for the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Although the Earth completes one full rotation in 86,400 seconds on average, that spin fluctuates by a millisecond or two every day. Before ...

The bold question-askers at What If reveal what makes Neptune’s atmosphere so wildly unforgiving. California Democrats stage internal war over Gavin Newsom's late push to build more housing I ...