A remarkable piece of technology, theoldest government computer still in operation, is over 25 billion kilometers (15.5 billion miles) away from Earth. This astounding machine is not found in any ...

Ancient asteroid impacts may have done more than reshape Earth's surface—they could have helped spark life itself. New computer models show the collisions created enormous underground hydrothermal ...

How does the Earth generate its magnetic field? While the basic mechanisms seem to be understood, many details remain unresolved. A team of researchers from the Center for Advanced Systems ...

The past few centuries have yielded an abundance of information about Earth's atmosphere, from the weather that manifests in the troposphere and stratosphere to the vast amounts of heat absorbed by ...

Repeated asteroid impacts during Earth's early history may have pumped so much heat into the planet's interior that stable ...

Without direct access to the Earth's deep interior, the research team needed to rely on computer simulations of the freezing process. They looked at the presence of other elements, specifically ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Computer models have accurately forecast conditions on Mars and are valid predictors of climate change on Earth, U.S. and French astronomers said on Tuesday. These computer ...