Revolutionary technique allows astronomers to capture incredibly high-resolution images of distant galaxies and supermassive black holes.

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet’s history and require many complex processes working at once, according to new research.

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

Initially developed by theoretical physicist Brandon Carter in 1983, the “hard steps” model argues that our evolutionary ...

This will be the 10th time this winter that the polar vortex stretches like a rubber band to send some of that big chill south to the US.

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

With HiT&MiS deployed in Sweden, physics Ph.D. student Charmi Patel '24 will use it to monitor the northern lights, as seen ...

The weather phenomena are common for California winters, but they could cause dangerous debris flows or mudslides in recently ...

The planet has been shattering heat records for the past two years. That was expected to ease in January—and the fact that it ...

NASA's Pandora satellite mission to document at least 20 known planets orbiting distant stars will start from SpaceX at its ...