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

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

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

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

In the shadow of South Australia's largest mountain range beneath the outback soil lies a fossil record that reveals a rich ...

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

Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...

A mysterious type of iron-rich magma entombed within ... and the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Rare earth elements are found in smartphones, flat screen TVs, magnets, and even ...

Just a few smashups in the asteroid belt may account for 70 percent of Earth’s meteorites, limiting what’s known about our solar system’s history.

Recently published research looks at the possibility that rainwater played a crucial role in stabilizing early cells, paving ...

Earth and environmental sciences cover all aspects of Earth and planetary sciences, and broadly encompasses solid Earth processes, surface and atmospheric dynamics, Earth system history ...

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