Major clues to the origins of our planet—and life itself—are locked inside some three billion-year-old volcanic rocks from ...

Off the coast of Vancouver Island, a slab of ocean floor has dropped by about five kilometers along a fault that scientists ...

This rock star is ready for its extreme close-up. Chinese researchers have captured the first-ever close-up images of the ...

(Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) If potted plants always seem to die under your care, you can take solace in ...

When NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System, or CYGNSS, launched into orbit in 2016, none of the University of ...

Scientists discovered the ozone hole in 1985, but if they'd had the atmospheric monitoring capabilities of today, they could have found it 30 years earlier, according to new research. As millions plan ...

Earth reaches aphelion on July 6, 2026, placing it about 152 million kilometres from the Sun. So why is it still summer?

The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make ...

A new study gives fresh insight into what happens to planets after the death of their star. The post Science reveals fate of ...

Picture all of Earth’s oceans, which cover about 70% of the planet and are mostly made of hydrogen. Now multiply that by nine. That may be the amount of hydrogen in Earth’s core, possibly making it ...

An asteroid as large as five cruise ships is barreling towards Earth at 5.6 miles per second. Civilization thankfully isn’t ...