"The solar wind squished Jupiter’s magnetic shield like a giant squash ball," O'Donoghue said. "This created a super-hot ...

Its orbit is about 1.5 times the size of Earth's. Sunlight takes about 13 minutes to get to Mars, while it takes around 8 minutes to reach our planet. Past missions from Earth to the Red Planet ...

Needham native and astronaut Sunita Williams, along with fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore, spoke Monday for the first time ...

Why do people believe the flat Earth theory and is it even worth debating? Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space ...

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, ...

The planets closely orbit Barnard’s Star, zipping around their stellar host in a matter of days, compared with the year it takes Earth to complete one orbit around the sun. The outermost planet ...

Experiments suggest that an unusual magnetic material can help harness energy from the planet’s rotation. But not everyone is convinced. Electricity can be generated from the energy of Earth ...

“The earlier you detect an asteroid that might impact planet Earth, and the earlier you can take action far away from planet Earth, the higher the chances are that it will not have negative impacts.

The planet in Ash, referred to Ash, is based on Kepler-442b, a rocky exo-planet about 1,200 light years from Earth. According to Flying Lotus, the connection goes deeper than that. “The planet ...

Earth’s warming could trigger sweeping changes ... Record heat last year pushed countries to use more planet-warming fossil fuels to cool things down. A Times reporter co-wrote a guide to ...

A privately funded crew will launch on a SpaceX rocket next week on a mission to orbit Earth's poles - something that has ...

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 ...