A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

The Southern Taurid meteor shower is set to peak Monday night into Tuesday with a chance for sky-gazers to spot fireballs.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an X2.3 solar flare on November 6th, 2024, causing shortwave radio blackouts in ...

A group of 80 researchers from 45 countries is warning this week of global challenges driven ... are released annually by scientists at Future Earth, The Earth League, and the World Climate ...

Stable parts of the Earth's crust may not be as immovable ... Devika Rao has worked as a staff writer at The Week since 2022, covering science, the environment, climate and business.

A late season tropical storm predicted to intensify into a category 2 hurricane in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico this week could ...

RTÉ will once again celebrate Science Week with a range of future-focused programming and content across television, radio and online from Sunday, 10 to to Sunday, 17 November, and beyond.

Scientists call such phenomena mini-moons. The asteroid was found by a group called ATLAS, which stands for Asteroid ...

Well, a Scavenger crew are the first (and only) humans to live on earth in a thousand years. Together, they brave missions ...

A small but mighty cluster of sunspots have made their biggest mark yet on Earth's magnetosphere—and on the radio signals that pass below it. After releasing an X2.3-class solar flare on Nov. 6, radio ...

After spending a total of 235 days in space, NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 s plashed down off the coast of Pensacola early Friday ...

Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...