Scientists around the world have been scrambling to fill in gaps and make space on their servers for American data sets, ...

Physicist Sean Carroll explains how physics, astronomy, philosophy, and classics all help us understand the expanding ...

Earth’s magnetic field and atmospheric oxygen appear to have moved in sync for half a billion years, pointing to a surprising connection between the planet’s deep interior and life-supporting ...

T o make good decisions on any question the public needs to be well-informed, something not so easily accomplished in America’s schools. That is a key point made by Michael Kent, a recently retired ...

Even the simplest laboratory tasks on Earth rely on gravity, but in space, they can quickly become complex, astronaut ...

Students and teachers are reducing food waste in schools and learning how their daily choices can help the environment.

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during ...

They're all around us: sensors and satellites, radars and drones. These tools form vast remote sensing networks that collect ...

As much as 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen may be in Earth’s core, scientists reported, suggesting most of Earth’s water was ...

Simulations suggest that two enormous masses of hot rock have been involved in generating Earth’s magnetic field and giving ...

Scientists have long debated whether most of Earth's vital liquid was delivered via icy comets or was homemade ...

An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has mostly been here since the beginning ...