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 new study by Caltech’s Konstantin Batygin and his colleague theorizes how super-Earths are formed. Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt ...

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.

One player in particular has become somewhat of a social media sensation throughout the last year to date and that is NBA champion Kevin Love. It all began with the well-publicized drama between Jimmy ...

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

New scientific theory based on ancient proteins suggests that genes did not arise as we believed and that life could have started elsewhere.