An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...

Voyager 1 was responsible for one of the most iconic space photos in the history of the space program. In 1990, while still ...

A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.

Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...

ESA 's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is ultimately headed for the Jovian system, but on Aug. 20, it took a quick look at ...

China set to unveil long-term vision for space science The Chinese Academy of Sciences is aiming to accelerate its progress ...

Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.

Down To Earth Community Lab: Join your fellow space explorers to ask questions, share out-of-this-world ideas, and forge new ...

When approaching Earth, asteroids tend to do one of two things: Most of the time, they miss. Sometimes, they hit, leaving a ...

The strange, imperceptible tremor mystified geologists, but a vast team of researchers says it has cracked the case.

Do you feel that things are moving a bit slower of late? Not a lot but just a little. Because they are. It turns out that our planet is spinning just a little bit slower than it has in the recent past ...

NASA said Thursday its Space Communication and Navigation program is taking the lead on an effort to establish a Coordinated ...