The sight of a fireball streaking across the sky brings wonder and excitement to children and adults alike. It's a reminder ...

The 550-million-year-old Quaestio simpsonorum is the first fossil to show a definitive left-right asymmetry, an important ...

The vital ingredients for life on Earth may have been delivered by meteorites from larger bodies called "planetesimals" in ...

Earth's auroras result from solar winds interacting with the magnetosphere, creating light displays in vivid colors based on ...

Everything has a beginning, and a new study finds that the start of life on Earth arrived in the form of melted asteroids.

Predicting what Earth will look like in 1000 years could help researchers find signs of life on other planets.

Lava that erupts from hotspots around the world seems to come from a similar ancestral magma, new research finds.

A new sunspot forming on the surface of the sun might be about to fling solar flares in our direction. The sunspot, named ...

There are millions of species on Earth that are still unknown to us. Researchers call these species ‘biological dark matter’, ...

Oct. 10, 2024 — Microscopic organisms in the ocean play a key role in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. A new study unveils a hidden biological factor that could change our ...

A deep-sea expedition made the surprising discovery of a previously unknown ecosystem in which animals such as giant tube worms thrive beneath hydrothermal vents.

Shelf-stable milk is a miracle of food science that Americans just won’t drink.