Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

The idea of leaving our home planet has always sent a tremor through the collective human spirit. Imagine standing under a ...

The exoplanet K2-18b is generating headlines because researchers announced what could be evidence of life on the planet. The ...

The death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday will inevitably have prompted moments of deep introspection among those who believe – and many of ...

It all exploded in late 1969 when Heritage’s mother died suddenly. Overcome by grief and exhaustion, Heritage found it ...

In his landmark 2015 encyclical “Praised Be,” Pope Francis cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral ...

A new analysis by UC Boulder geologists suggests the ancient Mars landscape was formed by falling precipitation, including ...

"Any claim of life on another planet requires a lot of justification, and I don't think we're there yet, Måns Holmberg, a ...

Hundreds of marches, pickets, and cleanup events are taking place across the US in the run-up to Earth Day on Tuesday, as ...

The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of ...

At Scripps Institution of Oceanography, marine biogeochemist Amina Schartup is investigating the impact of changing ocean ...

SpaceX tested the Plug and Plaser device for the first time in space last year on the Polaris Dawn mission, which was most ...