Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its start back by 140 million years.

Bodie State Historic Park near Bridgeport, California, is where the Old West decided to take a permanent nap, and honestly, it’s the most hauntingly beautiful place you’ll ever visit without needing a ...

A massive crater on asteroid Psyche may hold the key to whether it’s a lost planet’s core or something more complex. New simulations suggest NASA’s upcoming mission could finally solve the mystery.

Scientists discovered that Greenland’s ice sheet may be slowly churning deep below the surface, revealing a hidden process ...

Every eleven years, the sun's magnetic field flips. Sunspots—dark, cooler regions on the sun's surface that mark intense ...

Even 200 years after asteroid 16 Psyche was discovered, astronomers continue to puzzle over its formation. Psyche is the 10th ...

Few animals are more majestic than those bearing a crown of antlers. Moose bear these head adornments particularly well; they ...

Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of strange plume-like structures hidden deep inside the Greenland ice sheet. New research suggests they form through thermal convection—slow, swirling ...

In a series of experiments at Johns Hopkins University, Lily Zhao fired tiny samples of a microorganism with a room-sized gas ...

A glacier in Europe holds clues about the activities of pre-industrial people, but it's melting fast.

It’s a bit like reading a very dense book – it’s small in size, but it’s full of information.” Paleoclimatologists like ...