In this image from Dec. 17, 1903, Orville Wright makes the first powered, controlled flight on Earth as his brother Wilbur looks on. Orville Wright covered 120 feet in 12 seconds during the first ...

Suspended above the Mediterranean Sea, Russia's Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft made its final approach to the International Space ...

Today, oceans cover about 70% of Earth’s surface. This stark contrast has long driven scientific interest in how water ...

On the freezing evening of December 16, 1920, in the rural highlands of northwest China, thousands of families were settling in for the night. In the loess caves and mud-brick homes of Gansu Province, ...

The new dataset, published in Earth System Science Data by 16 scientists, shows a significantly cooler Earth from the late ...

On this day in 1962, NASA’s Mariner 2 spacecraft made history with a close flyby of Venus, marking a major milestone in the early years of space exploration. The mission became America’s first ...

Inside the American Museum of Natural History's glass cube, the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and ...

We know about fossils and rocks, ice cores and seabeds... but it turns out the Earth has been storing data - on climate, ...

How did Afghanistan go from being Ronald Reagan’s “Nation of Heroes” to Donald Trump’s “Hellhole on Earth”? How did Afghans go from honored White House guests to immigrants blamed wholesale for the ...

International Mountain Day 2025 is on Dec 11. The theme, 'Glaciers matter for water, food and livelihoods,' highlights the ...

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim has returned to Earth after an eight-month mission aboard the International Space Station. He ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is expected to reach another historic milestone in November 2026: it will be at a distance of one “light-day” from Earth. This distance, approximately 26 billion kilometers ...