Humans have been reshaping the environment for at least 10,000 years. But the Anthropocene is the name given to the specific ...

NASA finds a historic link between magnetic field shifts and oxygen levels, possibly key to life’s evolution on Earth.

Earth's D'' layer is essentially an undercurrent of rocks that particularly aligns the crystals of post-perovskite.

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

UC Berkeley astronomers found a hidden black hole roaming far from the galaxy’s core. It may eventually merge with the ...

The organization of life on Earth follows a simple, hidden rule known as “core-to-transition organization.” Hypothesized by ...

The monstrous 85-mile-wide comet C/2014 UN271 is the second most distant body originating from the Oort Cloud found to be ...

Each year, around four million moths migrate up to 1,000 kilometers to hibernate in the cool dark of mountain caves.

Rocks in some parts of the UK have the potential to produce natural hydrogen, but it remains unclear whether the gas is ...

Mars isn't a bright, fire-engine red, but the iron oxide in its rocks makes it appear redder than other planets, especially ...

The aforementioned models of the cosmos, including the standard model of cosmology, have long posited the idea that the ...

Not only does this research offer new clues about how Earth has maintained the delicate balance needed for life, but it may ...