When palaeoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered a bone fragment at the Hadar fossil site in Ethiopia in 1974, he knew it ...

New research shows cosmic rays can break water underground, releasing energy that may sustain life deep beneath ice, rock, or alien crusts.

Scientists found a huge chain of old volcanoes under South China. This 400-mile-long arc formed 800 million years ago. It ...

Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill contained a provision to snatch the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian and relocate ...

A treasure trove of exceptionally preserved early animals from more than half a billion years ago has been discovered in the ...

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...

Discovery of 'super-Earth' exoplanet not as 'strange' as some reports claim The discovery of a new exoplanet garnered some big, though somewhat misinformed, reactions online.

A new NASA study shows that Titan's methane lakes could form "vesicles," a crucial early step in the development of living cells on Earth.

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

With GPS increasingly vulnerable to tampering, planes need more reliable navigation systems. The magnetic pull in the Earth’s crust could offer a novel solution.

The private Ax-4 astronaut mission will undock from the International Space Station on Monday morning (July 14), and you can watch the action live.

Unravelling Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history with rocks is tricky business.Case in point: the discovery of an ancient meteorite impact crater was recently reported in the remote Pilbara region of ...