The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.

“We’re definitely seeing more cautious spending this year,” she said.

Every second, our planet is racing through space at tens of thousands of miles per hour, yet the air outside the window usually feels calm. That apparent stillness hides a web of forces, from orbital ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have formed on our planet eons ago. But not everyone ...

In Judith Enck's new book, she reveals how plastic pollution contributes to poisoned oceans, polluted air, a warming planet, ...

The seventh edition of the Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-7) offers a stark vision of the decades to come. But its authors ...

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...

Eco anxiety is very real, so we share this year's most uplifting stories to prove there’s hope for our climate.

The new dataset, published in Earth System Science Data by 16 scientists, shows a significantly cooler Earth from the late 1700s through 1849 compared with 1850-1900 — the latter being what scientists ...

A stray comet will make its closest approach to Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar ...

A stray comet from another star is swinging past Earth. Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...