The record sheds light on the climate early humans experienced when they were spreading out of Africa. A tree-ringed African ...

Researchers have discovered that Cepheid variable stars in our neighboring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, are moving in opposing directions along two distinct axes. They found that stars closer ...

A colossal solar filament over twice the distance between Earth and the moon erupted from the Sun's northern hemisphere ...

Minor quakes can disrupt natural tectonic patterns deep underground and change stress landscape, new study finds.

Venus, often written off as a geologically dead world, is far more active beneath its blistering surface than previously ...

In groundbreaking research published in Seismological Research Letters, a team from The Australian National University (ANU) ...

To understand how chaotic the early solar system was, we need only gaze at the moon. Its cratered surface bears the scars of ...

When standing in many places in Yellowstone National Park, the signs of a buried heat source are unmistakable, making one ...

A Cold War-era spacecraft is about to return to Earth, the final leg of its failed mission to explore one of our closest cosmic neighbors. Kosmos 482 was launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 to ...

His quest was to create a powerful magnet without rare earth elements. The result was the world’s first iron nitride magnet, a revolutionary technology forged from iron and nitrogen. With China ...

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across ... This discovery opens new doors for planetary system science: Having a better understanding of exoplanet ...