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

Other reasons for the shift in signs, according to the New York Times report, could be the changing size of constellations or the notably missing "Ophiuchus" constellation, which was not included in ...

The habitable zone — the region where temperatures are just right to support liquid water on a planetary surface — around white dwarfs spans somewhere from a tenth to a hundredth the distance between ...

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 ...

When the balance in reflectivity shifts, “the whole circulation of the climate will shift in order to transport energy from ...

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

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

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

Global scientists warn that humanity is on the verge of crossing irreversible climate thresholds, with coral reefs already at their tipping point and polar ice sheets possibly beyond recovery. The ...

A team of geophysicists say that an enormous mass shifted deep beneath the Earth’s surface 18 years ago. As detailed in a paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters last month, a team ...