These sapropel layers are packaged into groups of 4–5 (Figure 4), reflecting the influence of slight changes in the shape of the Earth's orbit around the sun (eccentricity) on modulating the ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Did Copernicus borrow his cosmological theory from an earlier Muslim scientist? New research finds striking resemblance between Copernicus’s heliocentric treatise and a Muslim scientist’s cosmological ...

Seeing a correlation between the eccentricity of planetary orbits and ... how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form," Gilbert said. "That’s really the major discovery ...

Great Basin National Park nearby offers ancient bristlecone pines (some older than the pyramids), mysterious limestone caves, and Nevada’s only glacier, proving that this state contains multitudes ...

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — Some NASA Earth science missions have been told to prepare termination plans given the potential for major budget cuts in the agency’s overall science activities.

"Many of the NEOs that pose a risk to Earth remain to be found," Bauer said. "An asteroid impact has a very low likelihood at any given time, but consequences could be high, and open science is an ...

These points of no return are specific moments when the planet has warmed so much that certain effects become irreversible.