More objects are being launched into space than ever, and most are headed for low Earth orbit. This region of space has become increasingly crowded with launches from SpaceX and others that have ...

The term “ecosystem engineering” has been used for decades as a way to describe organisms that drastically alter their ...

The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moons, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.

When the balance in reflectivity shifts, “the whole circulation of the climate will shift in order to transport energy from ...

Earth's core cannot be made just of iron — it also appears to contain carbon. And our research suggests it may contain a bit of oxygen and possibly silicon as well. The iron-rich core at the centre of ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic ...

The discovery of a new celestial object in the Earth's neighborhood has created a buzz online asking whether the planet now ...

Earth still only has one true natural satellite — our 2,159-mile-wide moon oribiting about 239,000 miles away. However, ...

2024 may have been Earth's hottest year in at least 125,000 years, according to a grim climate report published Wednesday (Oct. 29) that describes our world as "on the brink" and warns its "vital ...

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