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 ...

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

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

The ocean's smallest engineers, calcifying plankton, quietly regulate Earth's thermostat by capturing and cycling carbon.

Hidden deep in ancient rocks, scientists have found the surviving traces of Earth’s first form—unchanged for 4.5 billion ...

When the balance in reflectivity shifts, “the whole circulation of the climate will shift in order to transport energy from ...

Was a new moon discovered? What is the name of the new moon? What is a Quasi-moon? Does the Earth have two moons? An expert ...

Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 ...

A rare encounter of two comets this week will have stargazers in awe after nearly a year of no easily seen comets.