The sight of a fireball streaking across the sky brings wonder and excitement to children and adults alike. It's a reminder ...

Taking advantage of our natural setting, we use field-oriented and laboratory-supported inquiry to explore problems in all facets of earth science. Middlebury College students engage with our faculty ...

Add 2 to 3 tablespoons of your chosen contaminants to clean water, then shake or stir. Keep adding your contaminants until ...

The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos on Oct. 7, meant to follow up on NASA's ...

Unpopulated and in the middle of nowhere, Point Nemo is starting to have a history. This article appears in the November 2024 ...

Our mission is to excel in education and research in Earth system sciences and human-environmental interactions. We aim to provide students with the scientific basis to work in geology, meteorology, ...

A comet not seen for more than 80,000 years will be visible from Earth, potentially during two separate time periods over the next month. Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, also known as Comet A3 ...

Beginning Sunday, Earth's skies will soon have a temporary visitor. On September 29, an asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5 will become a "mini-moon" of sorts, temporarily entering Earth's orbit for almost ...

Stargazers are in for a celestial surprise this autumn. A small asteroid is set to be captured by Earth's gravitational pull, temporarily becoming a "mini-moon." This object will orbit the planet ...

This is because they’re small and faint. They are usually found by projects specifically looking for asteroids near Earth. These projects will continue to search for asteroids, including mini-moons.

University of Pennsylvania Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science Michael Mann and science educator Bill Nye join Katy Tur to react to Helene and to share what people can do to ...