Some ancient marine organisms produced mysterious magnetic particles of unusually large size, which can now be found as ...

A new study has revealed how phosphorus, a nutrient essential for photosynthesis, surged into ancient oceans and started ...

Scientists have recently proposed the existence of “Planet Y,” a hidden Earth-sized world that could be lurking in our solar ...

Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, the young solar system was a swirling cloud of gas and dust that formed the first asteroids ...

Imagine sipping a glass of sake in space—a taste of Earth in the great expanse of the cosmos. While it may sound like science ...

The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that ...

Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole as glaciers start to flow faster and surface melting increases.

Drone technology, forensic science helped corroborate witness accounts of how Assad's government trucked bodies from a mass ...

Researchers analyzed changes over time in the ratio of small earthquakes to bigger ones beneath Mount Etna and found a strong ...

After four rounds of layoffs in two years that cut a quarter of its employees, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory now faces a ...

Scientists reexamining data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have uncovered exciting new evidence from Saturn’s icy moon ...

In a rare glimpse into the earliest days of our planet, scientists have discovered remnants of the “proto Earth.” ...