Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a ...

We have all admired the stunning images of Earth from space. But when we are standing in a park or gazing out of a window, ...

Curious Kids ... surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on ...

A student-led project comparing satellite images of the Arctic has discovered that a small Russian island has recently ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk on, and no place to land a spaceship. But how can that be? If Jupiter doesn ...

Lauren Arkell of Brentwood, NH is on missions team for Blue Ghost, a 6½-foot-tall robotic moon lander lauding aboard a SpaceX ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that ... plates collide and dive into the planet's interior. Subduction is a feature of plate tectonics, so these widespread rocks show with certainty ...

Fifty years ago, 20 of the world's brightest people tried to predict life in 2024. They got an awful lot wrong.

Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

To see the finer details of its battered surface, though ... whatever phase of the moon is being revealed to Earth, it still has several features on show for you to find and observe.

In this week's issue of our environmental newsletter, we check out a campaign to turn Taylor Swift fans into climate ...