For the first time in its history, humanity is assembling a coordinated system to find, track, and deflect asteroids that ...

Key climate tipping points may be closer than expected, raising the risk of accelerating warming, sea-level rise, and ...

Using HARPS and HARPS-N spectrographs, astronomers have observed a nearby K-type star designated HD 176986, known to host two ...

Two next-generation satellite missions announced Thursday will help NASA better understand Earth and improve capabilities to ...

STRIVE seeks to take measurements from the upper troposphere to the mesosphere while EDGE seeks to make glacier, and ice ...

Humanity has reached the first Earth system tipping point, the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs, marking the beginning of irreversible planetary shifts. As global temperatures move beyond ...

In a white paper published by a multidisciplinary team of top scientists in China, Earth system is defined to encompass both internal and external geospheres from solid Earth system through surface ...

WASHINGTON — NASA is making progress on a multibillion-dollar series of Earth science missions amid uncertainty about their funding for the next year. In town hall sessions at the Fall Meeting of the ...

An agreement on the third implementation phase of Destination Earth (DestinE), the European Commission’s initiative to ...

The National Academies will organize a workshop on Earth system predictability research and development. The agenda for this workshop will be informed by key themes that emerged from a roundtable ...