A 2017 satellite photo shows the stark contrast along the boundary between a giant field of golden "star dunes" and a barren ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

In Earth’s early days, more than 4 billion years ago, the surface was a dangerous and unpredictable place. Violent volcanoes, ...

Concentrated hydrogen in the galaxy’s spiral arms can be locked away in zircon crystals, providing startling clues about the ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation ...

The interior of the mysterious far side of the moon may be colder than the side constantly facing Earth, suggests a new ...

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how ...

It was the winter of 1929. A young assistant superintendent of the Geological Survey of India was deputed to undertake field ...

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

After the Big Bang, dark matter clumped together, traces of which are said to exist. Because they cannot be detected from ...

In our first interview with Mayer, he discussed using pressure cycling to study prebiotic chemistry. In the second part of ...

Rock layers deposited before and after the major dinosaur extinction event 65 million years ago are surprisingly different.