Zircons are also found across the Earth, and they’ve been used to locate the earliest signs of freshwater on the planet.

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once ...

In a new study, characteristics of elevated moist layers, their seasonality, spatial distribution, structure, and the ...

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Beetles are an evolutionary success, with rove beetles' diversification largely due to their unique tergal gland that synthesizes defensive chemicals. This adaptation, evolving over millions of years, ...

Four new images show our nearest star in dazzling detail, with each one made up of 25 shots observed by the Solar Orbiter in ...

NASA supercomputers are shedding light on what causes some of the sun's most complex behaviors. Using data from the suite of ...

Interactions between Earth and the solar system have profoundly shaped the planet’s history, influencing evolution and ...

A European spacecraft is showing us how dynamic the Sun is with newly released images, the highest-resolution images of our star's surface so far.

The rover's latest discoveries, including pure sulfur stones and sprawling mineral "spiderwebs," unravel new mysteries of ...

As much as we have explored and modeled our planet, there are a number of mysteries that surround the Earth's inner core.

The first one harms the Earth and the second undermines global systems of trust -- the interplay of institutions that ...