A few politicians are making news for accepting a once-fringe conspiracy theory that the Earth is flat. Voters aren't ...

A colossal solar filament over twice the distance between Earth and the moon erupted from the Sun's northern hemisphere ...

A hidden source of clean energy could power the planet for more than a hundred thousand years if tapped into, according to ...

The record sheds light on the climate early humans experienced when they were spreading out of Africa. A tree-ringed African ...

While researchers are still debating the exact timeline, one thing is becoming clear. Life didn’t take long to get started.

NASA engineers have revived old thrusters on Voyager 1 to prevent a clog from endangering the mission during a planned ...

China has implemented new export controls for rare earth minerals and magnets. The changes could upend the shift to electric ...

Researchers have compiled a list of "ingredients" that could help resource exploration companies locate huge reservoirs of ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is expected to plunge uncontrolled back to Earth within ...

At the Museum of Modern Art, a watercolor herbarium from 1919 and 1920 flaunts the literal side, and even the preachiness, of ...

From installing a phone inside a melting glacier to creating a ticker that counts every sunrise in Earth's history, artist Katie Paterson's work explores the expansiveness of deep time.