A dip in Earth's gravity field beneath Antarctica is helping scientists track deep-Earth changes over tens of millions of years.

A strange metal rich asteroid called Psyche may be the exposed core of an ancient failed planet, and NASA’s mission could finally reveal what lies beneath its battered surface.

In northeast Ethiopia, the rift shoved continental plates apart by 25 feet in just a few days, completely shocking ...

Fresh observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how vivid auroras surge through Uranus’s tilted magnetic field ...

New research shows Saturn’s rings formed about 100 million years ago after a massive collision between Titan and Proto ...

A new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society argues the simplest answer may work: contact binaries like ...

When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new oceans opened, continents drifted apart and the ...

A declaration recognizing whales as legal rights-holders is influencing legislation in New Zealand and sparking an international push to translate Indigenous customs into binding protections.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

The Apollo missions changed how scientists understand the moon. Returning with Artemis could help solve some of the biggest lunar mysteries.

Organizers of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics say they power venues with fully certified renewable electricity, mainly ...

The first clue came from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, launched in 2018 to watch large areas of sky for tiny, repeating dips in starlight. Each dip marks a transit and reveals an ...