but Ceres really looks more like a planet." Ceres has a diameter of around 950 kilometers ... Ceres was a compelling ...

There is a 50% chance that global warming will consistently exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius in the next six years, according to a ...

An unusual sea slug with a large hood, a tail with fingerlike projections and glowing bioluminescence has been found living ...

Samantha Harvey wins literary award for Orbital, her novel about six astronauts ‘trapped in a tin can’ as they orbit Earth ...

Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

Happy New Year's on Mars. Martian years are almost twice as long as Earth years. Nov. 12 is the day to celebrate the start of ...

The findings are alarming: private jet emissions reached 15.6 megatons of CO₂ in 2023, a figure equivalent to the annual ...

In Oregon’s Coast Range, mature forests can absorb more carbon per acre than almost any other on the planet. Yet logging here ...

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.