A groundbreaking study published in Communications Earth & Environment has called into question the long-standing assumptions ...

Interstellar visitor Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered just a week ago and ever since, astronomers across the world have been ...

Predatory fish that evolved into the first terrestrial animals on Earth are still revealing insights into the origins of ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

The U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt-class destroyers, known for their radical, stealthy “tumblehome” hull design, are undergoing a ...

A rare slow-motion earthquake discovered off Japan’s coast sheds light on tectonic behavior and may improve tsunami ...

The melting of glaciers due to the climate crisis could make volcano eruptions more catastrophic than before, scientists ...

As the climate warms, scientists expect animals and plants to move to cooler areas—uphill, toward the poles, or into deeper ...

Mars Odyssey is one of many NASA science missions targeted for termination or major cuts in President Donald Trump’s fiscal ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Mount Rainier on Tuesday experienced its largest seismic activity since 2009, with a swarm of small earthquakes detected.

At the 246th American Astronomical Society meeting in Alaska last month, scientists discussed how Trump's budget cuts could ...

However, shorter days are ahead in the next few weeks. The rotation of the Earth changes due to several factors, including ...

Located billions of light-years away, the "Cosmic Owl" is a pair of colliding ring galaxies spotted by the JWST. It's also an "exceptional natural laboratory" for studying how galaxies evolve.

Japan stands in opposition to several other nations. International official sparks controversy by refusing to follow widely supported wildlife proposal: 'There is a sufficient population' first ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has flown through the plumes of water vapor spewing out from the ocean inside Saturn's moon Enceladus on multiple occasions, which has allowed researchers to determine the ...