We use them to clean the dishes we eat off, but your kitchen sponge is a damp, crumb-filled environment that is perfect for ...

Two massive, mysterious structures have been discovered beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean, and no one knows what they are ...

In wet season, 500 million litres of water tumble over the edge of Victoria Falls every minute. In dry season, you can sit on the edge yourself.

A new study of decades worth of seismogram data shows that the surface of Earth’s iron and nickel core is more malleable than ...

THE massive asteroid YR4 now has a greater chance of smashing into Earth than any asteroid in history – as Nasa raises the ...

Neutron stars, the collapsed remnants of massive stars, hold the densest matter in the universe. These cosmic objects are ...

First, a few basics. The Earth’s inner core, which is smaller than the moon, is solid iron and nickel. It’s surrounded by a layer of molten metal known as the outer core, followed by the Earth’s ...

It took 250 years for the Laschamps reversal to take place and it stayed in the unusual orientation for about 440 years. At most, Earth's magnetic field may have remained at 25 percent of its current ...

CHILLING new telescope photos of the “city killer” asteroid hurtling towards earth at 30,000mph have been released. The ...

As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...

Militaries that have taken power in Africa's Sahel region – notably Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger – have put pressure on ...

The swarm near Santorini appears to be related to the activation of a system of normal faults, fractures in the Earth’s crust ...