Earth’s magnetic field has flipped many times in the planet’s history, but evidence suggests it may be weakening again. During a geomagnetic reversal, the planet’s protective magnetic shield changes ...

Microbes move across the planet, linking ecosystems and spreading genes that shape antibiotic resistance, health, and ...

Security is one of the areas where quantum technology could have the most immediate impact. Quantum computers are inching ...

Michael McElroy, a pioneering atmospheric scientist and Harvard University professor, was a leading expert in atmospheric ...

New research shows anxiety about aging - especially health-related worries - may be linked to faster biological aging at the cellular level.

An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has mostly been here since the beginning ...

As much as 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen may be in Earth’s core, scientists reported, suggesting most of Earth’s water was acquired during the planet’s formation.

Harvard University researcher Michael McElroy made groundbreaking contributions to climate science and helped shape global ...

Discover how high-speed wavefront sensing enhances space situational awareness by overcoming atmospheric distortion.

Space is getting crowded — nowadays, over 45,000 human-made objects orbit Earth. A portion of that figure is indeed represented by the thousands of satellites humans use for internet, GPS and other ...

A 307-million-year-old fossil reveals that some of Earth’s earliest land animals were already experimenting with a ...

NASA shared that with a more precise shape, it will help astronomers understand data from planets seen passing in front of ...