Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...

Chinese researchers have discovered that interstitial carbon in iron-carbon alloys behaves in a superionic, liquid-like state under Earth’s core pressure and temperature conditions. Beneath Earth’s ...

Earth's atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published in the ...

Scientists found rocks deep inside Earth's mantle that generate hydrogen and could reveal clues about deep energy and the ...

Scientists have detected tiny lightning bolts on Mars for the first time — they were found discharging around NASA's ...

Have scientists finally confirmed the existence of the first exomoon? This is what a study released on the preprint server ...

It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient ...

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

Seventy light-years from Earth, a star called Kappa Tucanae A harbors one of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries: dust so hot it glows at more than ...

Scientists onboard CSIRO research vessel Investigator have discovered an underwater mountain taller than Mt Kosciuszko, the ...