Learn how forces deep underground generate a protective bubble between us and space.

The gas giant WASP 121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps moving. Here’s what to know.

Space weather. It refers to how solar eruptions affect Earth. The Earth's magnetic field deflects most of this energy, but ...

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the ...

A new study out this week said that the Earth's inner core is less solid than previously thought. Scientists still have ...

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears geologically unremarkable. In the 1990s, however, NASA's ...

That’s quite a big gap, as it turns out. It covers fields from gigantic bodies like the Sun and Earth, as well as those ...

By comparison, the magnetic north pole is the northernmost ... radiation and keeps solar winds from stripping away Earth’s atmosphere. Because the convective sloshing at Earth’s core never ...