When a NASA scientist finally cracked open a cache of 50-year-old lunar soil, the expectation was to refine old models, not ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This ...

Long before dinosaurs, Earth’s forests were ruled by a many-legged giant. Here’s why this millipede’s size still challenges ...

Look high above the southern horizon at sunset on Jan. 25 to find the moon with its right half illuminated by direct sunlight ...

A switch from a humid to a dry climate has led the Eastern African Rift Zone to pull apart more freely, new research finds.

A new NASA study using Apollo lunar soil samples challenges a long-held theory. It suggests meteorites were not the primary ...

Falling space junk is becoming a real-world hazard, and scientists have found a clever new way to track it using instruments ...

This episode is brought to you by the Music for Scientists album! You probably know about the geomagnetic field that protects the earth from solar storms and radiation. But precision satellites have ...

A major debate over the construction of the mysterious Neolithic Stonehenge site in the UK may finally have been resolved.

The Earth channels cosmic power in the form of solar energy. The coming winter superstorm shows just what havoc that power ...

At 5:07 a.m. EST on Saturday, the National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory valid from 7 p.m. EST until ...

NASA's Artemis II mission plans to see four astronauts venture around the moon, marking the first time humans will have left ...