Earth system models (ESMs), used in climate simulations and projections, typically use grids of 50–200 km resolution. These ...

The Sun is about 100 times wider than the Earth and the Earth could fit into the Sun over one million times. It would take 500 years for the fastest person on Earth to run the distance from the ...

An international team of scientists put the idea to the test thanks to mountains of data regarding OSIRIS-REx’s recent ...

Researchers developed a rating system to evaluate the plausibility of climate model simulations in the IPCC's latest report, and show that models that lead to potentially catastrophic warming are to ...

We’ve got a cosmic mystery on our hands. No one’s ever confirmed the existence of an ‘exomoon,’ which is a moon outside our ...

Sustainable development aims to build a system that meets the needs of society without compromising the ability of future ...

The world’s most powerful rocket is back on the launchpad at the SpaceX Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, and ready for another daring test flight.

Researchers have used the chemical fingerprints of zinc contained in meteorites to determine the origin of volatile elements on Earth. The results ...

The word magic is not often used in the context of science. But in the early 1930s, scientists discovered that some atomic ...

This important work shows how a simple geophysical setting of gas flow over a narrow channel of water can create a physical environment that leads to the isothermal replication of nucleic acids. The ...

Later this week, NASA will be launching the Europa Clipper spacecraft on a mission that’s going far in our solar system to ...