Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic ...

Do you feel that things are moving a bit slower of late? Not a lot but just a little. Because they are. It turns out that our planet is spinning just a little bit slower than it has in the recent past ...

Studying how Earth's gravity influences its path can help astronomers refine models of gravitational interaction and improve ...

With over half of the year behind us, adding an island getaway to your travel itinerary would be a boss move. That’s why we asked seasoned travel writers and global DJs to tell us their favorite ...

The summer of 2024 has been another scorcher, with the highest temperature ever recorded by NASA on July 22 and the city of ...

The ringed planet reaches opposition, Mars slips past the open cluster M35, and the original Cepheid variable shines in the ...

Down To Earth Community Lab: Join your fellow space explorers to ask questions, share out-of-this-world ideas, and forge new ...

The nova should be easy spot if you know where to look ... Hounsell said white dwarf stars aren't much larger in size than planet Earth. Usually they're too dim to see at night, but when a nova ...

I'm not saying you shouldn't visit volcanic places -- you should because they are some of the most amazing landscapes on Earth! However ... Translation: it isn't easy. The eruption going on behind ...

As with so many things in the fickle world of spaceflight, NASA already had a contingency plan in place for this exact ...

The Earth and Jupiter are planets that are very different in size ... all three dimensions of the room. It was very easy for me to move from one side of the space station to the other.

Twice a year, the sun doesn’t play favorites. Everyone on Earth is seemingly on equal status – at least when it comes to the amount of light and dark that they get. On Sunday, we enter our second and ...