THAT AUTUMN, A RESEARCH VESSEL called the Glomar Challenger sailed over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to drill holes and sample sediment. Fossils within the sediment samples they retrieved gave scientists a ...

When the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS swept through the inner solar system in Dec, it offered Earth a rare glimpse of material forged in another star’s neighborhood and turned a niche astronomical ...

A young world drifting alone through space is putting on one of the most violent growth spurts astronomers have ever seen, ...

But in all likelihood, the Earth will not see this time, having been engulfed by the Sun in its red giant phase, around 7.6 ...

New research suggests that for about a billion years, Earth’s rotation stayed stable at 19-hour days due to a balance between ...

Earth season 1 - Hulu The "Alien" franchise has enjoyed an exceedingly long life, even by Hollywood standards. Ridley Scott's ...

One of the oldest unsolved riddles in planetary science concerns the origin of the moon. Over a century ago, George Darwin proposed that tidal and centrifugal forces on a rapidly rotating proto-Earth ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds of galaxies, gas and dark matter that makes ...

The 15-year effort by Japan is a model for countries now scrambling to reduce their dependence on Beijing’s critical metals. Sojitz, a Japanese conglomerate, turned to Lynas, an Australian mining ...

Discovering a machine that could somehow produce thrust without releasing propellant would be a game-changer for human space travel. There’s just one problem—such a device would defy the laws of ...