Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano began erupting Tuesday morning. According to the US Geological Survey, this is Kilauea's 43rd episode of lava fountaining ...

Transient Luminous Events are rare bursts of lightning that occur high above thunderstorms, sometimes reaching toward the edge of space. Unlike ordinary lightning, they flash upward into the upper ...

NASA is currently tracking a car-sized asteroid set to zip past the Earth tomorrow, February 17, at a whopping 12,616 miles per hour. The space rock, 2026 CR2, is estimated to be about 9.7 feet across ...

The comet is now racing away from the sun following a close flyby on Jan. 20. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news ...

Surprise, surprise: all that climate stuff scientists have been warning us about is coming back to bite us. And by us, of course, we mean all of humanity. “Research shows that several Earth system ...

Comet Wierzchoś, also known as C/2024 E1, is rapidly brightening as it approaches its closest point to Earth next week. But experts predict it will eventually be thrown out of the solar system forever ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the atmosphere temporarily lost its ability to break down methane, leading to a huge spike in the greenhouse gas. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Thomas Gernon receives funding from the WoodNext Foundation, a fund of a donor-advised fund program. He is affiliated with the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany. Chloe Griffin ...

A newly identified planet candidate, HD 137010 b, looks strikingly Earth-like in size and orbit — but it may be colder than Mars due to its dimmer star. If it has a thick enough atmosphere, though, ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during ...