It affects us on Earth in a variety of noticeable and unnoticeable ways. The most obvious is the presence of auroras. In the ...

In 1986, humanity got its first close look at Uranus's secrets thanks to the Voyager 2 probe. After a lengthy journey, this ...

Despite being our closest celestial neighbor, the Moon's origin has remained a mystery to scientists. Since the 1980s, the ...

A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire planet.

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of ...

Researchers have discovered strong evidence from rocks in Colorado that Earth was covered in ice and snow around 700 million years ago, a period known as 'Snowball Earth'. The study, led by the ...

Immense glaciers once covered the entire Earth, reaching even the equator, geologists have confirmed. The discovery that this ...

GOES stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites. These satellites require a station on Earth to keep their ...

Model simulations offer insights into the fundamental properties of the solar magnetic field. New studies suggest that the Sun, like Earth, has polar vortices influenced by its magnetic environment. U ...