University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA ...

Scientists found that the inner core’s structure changes as it rotates. It deforms at its border, potentially accumulating more material in some areas and less in others — almost like creating hills ...

When we join him next month, King will be freshly arrived from Norway, where he’s leading a Roads Scholar trip to see the Northern Lights. Minnesota Night Skies will be a monthly podcast for the ...

Musk has long envisioned colonists on Mars. This seems like a fever dream, but it recently featured in Trump’s inaugural ...

2024's gigantic solar storm gave the Earth two new temporary radiation belts, according to NASA's CubeSat mission. One of these belts could stay in place for a "very long time", according to NASA ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

James Webb Space Telescope captures HH 30’s disc, revealing dust movement, jets, and planetary formation processes.

An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

Over the past three months, shares of Planet, which operates the world's largest privately owned constellation of Earth ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...