Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

"Astronomers may have just discovered the third interstellar object passing through the Solar System!" the agency's ...

We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

More modern “discoveries” exclaiming “Noah’s Ark found” take place on a regular basis. Most recently, a group called Noah’s Ark Scans, led by Andrew Jones, claims that soil samples ...