Our planet’s gymnastics routine continues underneath our feet nearly every day, but researchers recently mapped what they say is one of the most “drastic events in the evolution of ...

The fact that we could map these changes from near the Sun all the way to Earth is a first in India—and likely a global first ...

The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...

A new study led by University of Houston researchers, in collaboration with planetary scientists worldwide, suggests Uranus ...

Asteroids don’t always need to head straight for Earth to draw global attention. The case of asteroid 2024 YR4 is proving just that. Once flagged for a potential Earth impact, this 200-foot-wide ...

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic ...

Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying ...

James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, ...

The Earth’s inner core is separated from the rest of the planet by its liquid outer core, so it rotates at a different pace and direction.

Sediment flux to the oceans and diversity of marine animal families over the past 540 million years. The Pearson coefficient of 0.88 indicates a strong positive correlation between the two ...

How can rivers determine the long-term fate of the world’s water supply? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as a pair of researchers investigated changes in global river ...