Why do some planets have moons and some don’t? – Siddharth, age 6, Texas On Earth, you can look up at night and see the Moon shining bright from hundreds of thousands of miles away. But if you went to ...

Last year was the planet’s hottest in recorded history, NASA announced, marking two years in a row that global temperatures ...

A newfound "chicken-size" dinosaur, recently unearthed in Wyoming, changes what paleontologists thought they knew about how ...

The circumgalactic medium, a vast gaseous halo surrounding galaxies, could be crucial to the evolution of star-forming ...

Not only was the role transformative for the singer and actress, but on set of Wicked, she met her boyfriend, Ethan Slater, ...

Every 29.5 days, the moon goes through its full rotation, meaning that most months have a Full Moon and a New Moon for you to ...

Comet G3 ATLAS (C/2024) is expected to whiz past the Sun in mid-January, giving skywatchers an extremely rare opportunity to ...

Plants store 786 km³ water and cycle it back to the atmosphere in 5–18 days. New study reveals their critical role in the ...

The spacecraft themselves continued to operate normally in Earth orbit during the outage and "no science data has been lost." ...

Three government climate agencies say last year’s global average temperature easily passed 2023's record heat and kept ...

By drilling 1.7 miles beneath the icy surface, the team has pulled a 1.2 million-year-old ice core from Antarctic bedrock.

G3 (ATLAS) should be visible from the southern hemisphere, and possibly also the northern hemisphere, over the next few days ...