Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest – but an independent analysis shows they might be off by ...

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread. Unravelling Earth's ...

Dam construction since 1835 has caused Earth's poles to "wander" away from the planet's rotational axis because of the ...

Is Earth's inner core solid or liquid? While the inner core is extremely hot, experts have known that it is solid for many ...

For over two decades, physicists have been working toward implementing quantum light storage—also known as quantum memory—in ...

The Alien franchise has always been terrifying, intense, and mysterious. But now, with Alien: Earth, we’re finally going beyond the monsters.

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...

While the Sun appears placid to the naked eye, it is a roiling sphere of ionized gas or plasma, shaped by powerful magnetic ...

The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting ...

Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...