"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

Earth is hit by asteroids all the time, but to avoid severe damages in the future NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect us. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins AP ...

Now, scientists have devised a clever new way to predict where the pieces may land.

The dazzling lights of the aurora are created when high-energy particles from space collide with Earth's atmosphere. While ...

Australia's iconic red landscapes have been home to Aboriginal culture and recorded in songlines for tens of thousands of ...

In the bigger picture, "down" could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic. By convention, we say that above the plane is where the planets are seen to ...

Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That's what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in Earth sciences and seismology, she gets much of her data from a bird's-eye ...

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth’s history could have delivered ...

Indian-origin Vandi Verma is at the helm of a groundbreaking NASA achievement: Mars rover Perseverance's first AI-planned ...

Remembered as a pioneering atmospheric scientist who bridged planetary science, climate policy, and undergraduate education, ...