"Its deep, undisturbed waters have acted like a natural time capsule, trapping layers of sediment year after year, each ...

At an exhibition in the heart of China's capital, Beijing, cosmic data becomes tangible art.

Sedna, a distant dwarf planet three-quarters the size of Pluto, is inching toward the brightest star in our sky — and in 2076 ...

Once upon a time, Earth may have sported a planetary ring of its very own ... meteorite impacts observed in the geological ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

The graphite found in your favorite pencil could have instead been the diamond your mother always wears. What made the ...

Per the loose terms of its press material, Epicenter Imager meditates on the intersection of nature and technology, telling the story of an ancient, “massive yet subtle” earth-scanning device that ...

Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...

Instead of a tempest in a teapot, imagine the cosmos in a canister. Scientists have performed experiments using nested, ...

Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...