Earth's atmosphere is divided into several distinct layers, each characterized by specific temperature variations, composition, and phenomena. Below are the primary layers of the atmosphere, from the ...

By day, Chris Boone leads the USC Price School of Public Policy as dean. By night, he captures the wonders of the cosmos ...

ESA's state-of-the-art Biomass mission has been designed to shed new light on the health and dynamics of the world's forests, ...

April brings us Citizen Science Month and Earth Day—that means it’s the perfect time to get outside, explore nature, and even ...

We may not think about our planet on a day-to-day basis, but the world we live in is a pretty interesting place. The third ...

As people around the world celebrate Earth Day this year by planting trees and turning off a few lights, scientists look ...

Dr. Joseph Brewer, founder of Rare Earth Salts, has developed a way to ... in a smaller town but still in Southeast Nebraska. "Good science is good science, doesn't matter where it's at," he ...

A bold geochemical model reveals that TOI‑270 d, a sub‑Neptune 73 light‑years away, is likely a giant rocky world cloaked in ...

Project-based learning and a modular class design help students from various backgrounds and universities gain hands-on ...

A tiny, soft, flexible robot that can crawl through earthquake rubble to find trapped victims or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine may seem like science fiction, but an ...

Despite their name, blue-green algae aren’t algae at all — they’re cyanobacteria: ancient, light-harvesting microbes that helped shape Earth’s atmosphere. These microbial pioneers were ...

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck, scientists said on Tuesday. A team of astronomers used the Gemini South ...