Experts suspect this space rock is a piece of the lunar surface torn off by a meteor impact, so it could be a time capsule ...

In the ocean's twilight zone, where the reach of the Sun fades to nothing, an epic migration begins every time night falls. It could also have an outsized effect on our climate.

Solar dust could be influencing how the corona shines.

Geologists studying some of the planet's oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major ...

In the 45°C heat of the midday April sun, I swing my sledgehammer into the terracotta-varnished lobes of pillow basalt ...

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has sent back the first-ever close-up image of Earth's rare quasi-satellite Kamoʻoalewa, an asteroid that scientists suspect could be a fragment of the Moon.

Every plant alive today, from the tallest rainforest tree to the smallest patch of moss, will eventually disappear, but a new ...

Singapore logs one of the highest lightning strike rates in the world.On July 5, a man died after he was struck by lightning ...

The ozone layer’s most famous wound opened over Antarctica, but the damage may have started much earlier, and somewhere else ...

Here's your chance to live like an astronaut as NASA seeks volunteers to live in a habitat for a year simulating future moon ...

The probe will conduct a detailed scientific survey of the asteroid and send a sample back to Earth for further analysis.

Less than 30% of the world’s ocean floor has been mapped to modern standards, meaning scientists still have a clearer view of ...