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

The Trump administration's latest move to undermine environmental protections - a repeal of the endangerment finding - is the most dangerous yet.

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

Sometimes the geologic record obscures evidence of these important reversals in field direction, but statistical techniques ...

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

Deserts are notoriously dry, so why do so many of them border oceans?

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.

What may sound like a spa day for frogs is all part of a global effort to fight the chytrid fungus — the deadly pathogen responsible for what scientists have called the largest disease-driven loss of ...

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 ...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — It takes an immense amount of energy to power venues and make snow for the Winter Olympics ...