ESA’s Swarm satellite mission has discovered a mysterious magnetic wave that "oscillates every seven years and propagates ...

Earth's Dynamic Magnetic Fortress Our magnetosphere plays the role of gatekeeper, repelling unwanted energy that's harmful to ...

Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping ...

Five of Earth’s vital systems are close to a point of irreversible change, warns a new report released by a global network of scientists ahead of the upcoming U.N. climate change conference in Brazil.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

A team of geophysicists say that an enormous mass shifted deep beneath the Earth’s surface 18 years ago. As detailed in a paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters last month, a team ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. What’s Up for October? A Supermoon takes over, the Draconid meteor shower peeks through, and the Orionid meteors ...

State Key Laboratory of Soil Pollution Control and Safety, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement and Early Warning Technology for Urban Environmental Health Risks, School of Environmental ...

A developing pyrocumulonimbus cloud above Oregon's Gulch Fire, part of the Beaver Complex Fire, in 2014. On September 5, 2020, California’s Creek Fire grew so severe that it began producing it’s own ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...

AI-generated illustration. Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. Fire has always shaped the human story. Strike a match, watch the flare, and you’re tapping into something humans have relied on for at least ...