The astronomers who operate powerful Vera C. Rubin observatory released debut images June 23, 2025, showcasing just exactly ...

NASA and Monash University research reveals shrinking storm cloud zones are the primary driver of Earth's recent warming.

Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded ...

Earth's cloud cover is rapidly shrinking and contributing to record-breaking temperatures, according to new research ...

Antarctica's icy wilderness is warming rapidly under the weight of human-driven climate change, yet a new study points to an unlikely ally in the fight to keep the continent cool: penguin poo.

The weird way that penguin poop might be cooling Antarctica Scientists find that ammonia wafting from all that guano kicks off an atmospheric chain reaction.

It's a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories each month. In the past, we've featured year-end roundups of cool science stories we missed.

A controversial experiment to artificially cool Earth was canceled — what we know about why. Harvard’s canceled solar geoengineering project shows what happens when you try to test ...

The gas giant Jupiter is a whopping 452 million miles away from Earth and more than 11 times bigger, but is similar in at least one way. Some of the geophysical forces behind the enormous planet ...

WASHINGTON — NASA has picked four Earth science mission proposals for further study while separately selecting a smaller Earth science technology demonstration mission for development.

All of that would be gone if the Earth wasn't tilted, the days didn't get longer or shorter, and the Sun didn't make interesting patterns in the sky. The first 8:00 p.m. or later sunset in 2024 in ...

In the U.S., Tennessee and several other states have considered laws to make it illegal to release chemicals or other substances with the intention of changing the weather or intensity of the sunlight ...