Two stars that died close to Earth likely triggered two mass extinctions on Earth, scientists suggest. Cosmic rays spelt doom ...

How Do Satellites Re-Enter Earth’s Atmosphere ... entry is a crucial strategy for managing space debris, its impact on the ozone layer remains an emerging concern. Addressing this issue requires ...

What is the Ozone Layer? The ozone layer is a crucial component of Earth's stratosphere, located between 19 and 30 km above the surface. It plays a vital role in filtering harmful ultraviolet (UV ...

Oxygen and ozone depletion leading to a world where anaerobic life thrives With the depletion of oxygen from the Earth, its ozone layer will also be depleted. The ozone layer protects life from ...

The Northern Lights could be visible as far south as New York and Idaho tonight due to a "coronal hole" sending streams of ...

"Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past life." Today, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 billion years ago, the planet had rivers, lakes and even oceans with sandy ...

Keep reading to learn more about Earth's different layers, its atmosphere, and what makes the "blue planet" unique. Earth is made out of different layers, and those layers get hotter and more ...

The ozone layer is a crucial component of Earth's stratosphere, located between 19 and 30 km above the surface. It plays a ...

An international team of Earth and life scientists ... 79,500 years ago and that the planet bounced back from its chilling effects within decades. Prior evidence has shown that a massive eruption ...

Scientists discovered that volcanic eruptions in India’s Deccan Traps 66 million years ago released gases that altered Earth’s climate.

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

Photographer George Steinmetz ’79 returned to Stanford to unveil his new book, sharing images of global food production and ...