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 ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

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 world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an abnormally chilly United States, a cooling La Nina ...

Burrowing under soil opens up a whole new world, especially when that soil is on other planets. Getting under the top layer ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

This provides another piece of the puzzle to understand how planets and ... formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is ...

NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.

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