We've been living on this planet for hundreds of thousands of years, and we still don't fully understand it. That's not a ...

A team of scientists has succeeded in bringing to the surface a long, 1,268-meter section of rocks from the Earth's Mantle.

More than 250 million years ago, life on Earth faced its most devastating crisis — a global event so severe that it wiped out nearly three-quarters of life on land and an even larger share in the ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to examine the surface of LHS 3844 b, a super-Earth 48.5 light-years away.

Imagine southern Brazil’s vast grasslands, where the earth reveals its ancient secrets. It’s not just dirt; it’s a time capsule bursting open fast. Meet Gnathovorax cabreirai, a Triassic-era ruler of ...

As part of the agency's efforts to enable broader use of space, NASA has released its final goals and objectives for low Earth orbit, defining the long-term approach toward advancing microgravity ...

You may have heard a lot of online chatter about Earth's two moons recently, but that doesn't quite get the discovery right. Earth still only has one true natural satellite — our 2,159-mile-wide moon ...

The SETI Institute’s new Discovery and Futures Lab is expanding the search for life beyond Earth, uniting science, ethics, ...

New discoveries and fresh looks at familiar worlds show how far exoplanet science has come — and how much remains unknown. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...