If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of ...

New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

A shifting of Earth’s poles, referred to as ‘True Polar Wander,” combined with the sinking of tectonic plates during the Cenozoic Era, altered the planet’s interior, with rising hot mantle material ...

The planet is becoming greener, but scientists warn that forests with fast-growing trees are more fragile and less resilient.

Uranus does not behave like an ordinary planet. Its magnetic field tilts by nearly 60 degrees and sits off-center, so the ...

Earth’s magnetic shield is shifting in dramatic ways. New data from ESA’s Swarm satellites show that the South Atlantic Anomaly — a vast weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field — has grown by nearly half ...

That’s just what researchers from Northumbria University in the United Kingdom recently did, mapping the atmosphere of Uranus for the first time. They published their findings in Geophysical Research ...

In 250 million years, Earth’s continents may merge into a supercontinent so extreme that most mammals would struggle to survive.

A stream of charged particles known as the solar wind flows from the Sun toward Earth. Here, it meets the Earth's magnetic ...

Something wasn’t making sense—and then scientists realized they were looking in the wrong place.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first vertical view of Uranus's upper atmosphere, delivering an unprecedented look at the planet's ionosphere and auroral structures. The new ...

Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...