Where is the impactor?” The question, raised during a planetary science lecture back in 2019, struck a chord with ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

The University of the Witwatersrand has launched two initiatives that place Africa at the centre of global earth-science innovation.

The Yolo Bird Alliance invites the public to enjoy two exciting November events celebrating birds, science, and community: a field trip to the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area and a public lecture exploring ...

Humanity has reached the first Earth system tipping point, the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs, marking the beginning of irreversible planetary shifts. As global temperatures move beyond ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar system TOI-2267 located about 190 light-years away. This discovery, published in ...

In microgravity, flames form a spherical shape due to the absence of buoyancy-driven convection. Meanwhile, flames are ...

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, if more detailed analyses verify preliminary observations from the James Webb ...