Volcanic eruptions can destroy essential infrastructure, ground air traffic for days, wipe out entire cities, disrupt the ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

Now, NASA has released remarkable video captured during the historic flyby, offering the closest views of the sun ever ...

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed thick, dusty layers of the Cat's Claw Nebula, a region of star formation about ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

The town gets its name from the district it sits in, which is home to half of the world’s supply of a group of metals known ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

The discovery of an ancient meteorite impact crater was recently reported in Western Australia. But not everyone is convinced ...

Scientists created a simulation showing that early Earth still retained chemical traces of its igneous youth, 4.5 billion years ago.