Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have demonstrated that fiber-optic cables buried in simulated lunar soil can detect small earthquakes, raising the prospect that communication lines on ...

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

A new subatomic particle known as the Ξcc⁺ has been discovered at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. This heavy proton-like ...

Idaho's Silver Valley has produced about 1.2 billion ounces of silver since the late 1800s, enough to cast a solid cube ...

A new study focuses on krypton gas in the hopes of understanding how ancient coastlines and landscapes change in Earth’s past ...

Meteorite hunters are combing Ohio for fragments of a space rock that streaked across the sky earlier this week.

Malaria parasites contain tiny spinning crystals that have puzzled scientists for years. New research reveals they’re powered by a rocket-like reaction that breaks down hydrogen peroxide, releasing ...

Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its start back by 140 million years.

JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – There’s no way of knowing how many meteorites struck the ground in and around Medina County on Tuesday morning after a 7-ton asteroid exploded over the Cleveland area. It could be ...

Bennu looked far different up close than scientists expected, and that mismatch led to a deeper investigation into how asteroid surfaces behave. What researchers found in returned samples helped ...

A German startup is working on a rover capable of generating artificial seismic shocks to explore the Moon’s subsurface. The goal is to identify resources and reduce uncertainty ahead of future lunar ...