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 ...

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

Union City, Tenn.–There are just two weeks left to take advantage of early bird pricing for the 2025 Discovery Dash 5K/10K/1-Mile Fun Run. Register by Thursday, July 31 to lock in the 10K at $30 and ...

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.

Rare-earth metals—a group of 17 chemical elements—are not truly rare but are widely dispersed in the Earth’s crust, making them difficult and environmentally costly to extract. Mining these elements ...

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest — but an independent analysis shows they might be off by ...

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.