For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

Astronomers have found GJ 251 c, a rocky planet. It is a super-Earth located only 18 light-years away. This planet is in its ...

The space rock has actually been hanging around Earth for 60 years, but no-one has noticed it before... until now.

First spotted in August 2025 by the Pan-STARRS observatory in Hawaii, the quasi moon has likely been accompanying Earth for ...

We explore a material more precious than gold that didn’t originate on our planet.

Stanford University earth science and engineering expert Professor Roland N Horne will chair the international review panel for New Zealand's ...

A new review reveals how tiny shell-building plankton quietly drive carbon cycling and influence global climate change.

The 1990s were a golden age for science fiction and fantasy television — a decade when imagination returned to primetime in a ...

Scientists treated the yeast, known scientifically as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with 100 millimolar sodium perchlorate alone ...

A new study shows how carbon from rivers and saltwater mixing control emissions. Protecting natural salinity can help manage ...

The planet orbits a faint red dwarf star and sits in its habitable zone, where liquid water could exist if an atmosphere is ...