The atmosphere is constantly changing. Its composition has varied regularly over the course of the planet's climatic epochs, ...

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...

Using Einstein’s theory of general relativity, physicists found that clocks on the Moon would run 56 microseconds faster than ...

The study shows that these jumps in CO 2 occurred at times when the inclination of the Earth’s axis of rotation in relation ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Since ancient times, the sun has been known as a giver of light and heat, a source of life. Plants are coaxed from the Earth ...

2029 Apophis asteroid flyby will be a close encounter with Earth Earth’s gravity may dramatically alter the surface of ...

The Proba-3 mission consists of two spacecraft that will fly in close formation to study the sun, with the shadow of one ...

Earth and environmental sciences cover all aspects of Earth and planetary sciences, and broadly encompasses solid Earth processes, surface and atmospheric dynamics, Earth system history, climate ...

Gravitational distortions produced by distant galaxies show a slight—but notable—disagreement with Einstein's predictions.

It traces historical discoveries from ancient sun understandings to modern solar magnetism and its impact on Earth, like the ...