I n a feat that seemed unachievable just a few short years ago, an international research consortium has today unveiled the ...

The work was only possible by using NASA ER-2 High-Altitude Airborne Science Aircraft, a retrofitted U2 spy plane from the ...

We’ve all seen the – sometimes harrowing – footage of freshly hatched turtles making the deadly dash from their nests to the ...

Porous rocks on volcanic islands could have provided the conditions for RNA to replicate in a salt gradient to start life, ...

This is a problem for NASA and other space agencies, however, as humanity increases its activity on the lunar surface once ...

In a state already facing one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the country, this is only going to make things worse.

Their new series, Solar System, will look at the major planets. But it will embrace the fact that the solar system is not ...

Deep within the Earth is a layer that can apparently impede the process of crust recycling as it has been imagined.

"These trapped particles form two belts of radiation, known as the Van Allen Belts, that surround the Earth like enormous donuts. The outer belt is made up of billions of high-energy particles that ...

I t’s old news by now that Columbus was far from the first European to make it to the Americas. We know for a fact, for ...

This strained liquid is now a pure form of gold amalgam. To turn the amalgam into pure gold, the mixture is heated to a ...

On September 27, the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Mauna Loa in Hawai'i spotted the ...