Imagine for a moment that Earth suddenly shrank to the size of the Moon, while the Moon expanded to the size of Earth. How ...

Underneath Antarctica’s vast ice sheet lies one of the planet’s greatest mysteries. What would happen if every last piece of ...

Late at night, as I was writing, I looked up to see the bright moon hanging outside my window, and a fascinating hypothesis ...

Beneath the African continent, powerful plumes of molten rock are slowly reshaping the land from below. Scientists studying ...

Scientists have begun their study of the fourth planet from the TRAPPIST-1 star. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Joseph ...

A new rectangular telescope design could finally spot Earth-like planets around nearby stars, bringing the search for alien ...

Archaeologists unearthing a site known as Canhasan 3 Höyük, located within Turkey's Karaman province, have uncovered “the ...

Sixty percent of global land is outside safe biosphere limits, with human use of biomass driving widespread ecological strain ...

Researchers used atomic-scale computer simulations to discover the importance of carbon in forming a solid planetary core.

New simulations show carbon enabled Earth’s inner core to solidify under realistic cooling, solving the nucleation paradox.

A study by researchers at the University of Oxford, University of Leeds, and University College London has identified a new ...