Earth

The biggest payday in history is sitting one hundred miles beneath Earth’s surface. Scientists from MIT – with scholars at ten...

For midwesterners, fireworks weren't the only things worth staring up at the sky for during this long holiday weekend. Hundreds of...

Today marks Earth's aphelion, the point in its orbit when we are farthest from the Sun! If you want to be exact, aphelion occurred...

Just two days into their search for a giant meteorite that crashed off the coast of Washington State, Dr. Marc Fries and the crew of...

Despite tens of thousands of meteorites entering Earth's atmosphere each year, the vast majority of them burn up before they ever hit...

It's not the Space Force, but Bill Nye (everyone's favorite scientist and the man who made bow-ties and lab coats cool) and his...

Indian scientists discovered EPIC 211945201b, a planet roughly 27 times more massive than Earth and just 600 light years away.

Russian home security and dashcam owners were given a light show last week as a meteor approximately 13 feet wide flew overhead and...

Magma is swelling up beneath New England – how did scientists miss this until now?

Much like other glaciers around Earth's two poles, the Inglefield Gulf in northwest Greenland is melting and gradually contributing...

This small cube which resembles a Borg cube may not seem like much (unless you've seen enough Star Trek: The Next Generation to be...

It seems that Antarctica is a much stranger place than anyone--especially the scientists who study it--ever expected.   Apart from...

Getting eaten by a Tyrannosaurus rex was certainly a problem for various species living during the late Cretaceous period. But at...

There's lots of things you can do with a boat once you decommission it. Intentionally sinking the boat isn't an intuitive option, but...

You may have heard of frogs raining from the sky, but what about gemstones? Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has been erupting for weeks,...

Some spiders can jump. Others can burrow. More than you might expect can paraglide.New research on spider flight published in the...

Photosynthesis, the process of converting light into energy, is such a key part of any plant that the idea of "finding a new...

The Cretaceous period of prehistory is mostly well known for its giant dinosaurs like the Tyrannosaurus rex. Much less well known, but...

When it comes to pushing back the literal rising tides of climate change, it's hard to think of anything that could provoke a stronger...

It wasn't just saber-toothed tigers who had long teeth back way back when. And there were predators far, far older than that species...