At a Thursday lecture event, Benjamin Weiss, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

Study discovered that Chiron, a small icy world between Saturn and Uranus, is forming rings. This shows how small worlds ...

This is the message of the sixth issue of the annual "State of the Climate" report. The report was prepared by an ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic ...

Fungi’s evolutionary roots stretch far deeper than once believed — up to 1.4 billion years ago, long before plants or animals ...

New research challenges the idea that the hemispheres' matching brightness is a fundamental property of the planet ...

Jupiter was shaping Earth's fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early solar system that kept its ...

A new study of dinosaur biodiversity challenges the belief that the megafauna were on their way out 66 million years ago ...

Towering structures must be able to bend and sway when subjected to the forces of wind and ground movement, or they will ...

Researchers claim Earth's systems can be recovered with a stress on the use of renewable energy such as solar and wind ...

A n enormous area of the Earth’s crust has torn and slumped, dropping about 5 kilometers (3 miles). We’ve only just noticed ...