Global warming continues to surge, driven by rising greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists across the world agree: unless these ...

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

Contributing Editor Korey Haynes has produced a stellar story, How we study our planet, exploring the way we use Earth-orbiting satellites to inform us about our home. The array of orbiting ...

A new study compares young and old exoplanets to uncover how worlds shrink, migrate and evolve over time — offering insights ...

Future missions to Venus could also supply additional data on the density and temperature of the planet's crust, which could ...

With so much heat trapped in the atmosphere, temperatures are rising across the world, even in the Arctic. The increased ...

In The Visioneers, Harding travels around the world to meet the scientists and engineers who are tackling today’s biggest ...

An intense atmospheric river event in 2022 was the focus of a study by a team of researchers from Nordic countries. They ...

Venus—a hot planet pocked with ... drives plate tectonics. The Earth's crust, about 40 kilometers thick in continents and 6 km in ocean basins, is too thin and cool to support convection ...

If true, it gives us new insight into the evolution of the planet ... 4 miles thick under ocean basins, Earth's crust is, in contrast, far too thin, cool and rigid to support convection processes.