"Its deep, undisturbed waters have acted like a natural time capsule, trapping layers of sediment year after year, each ...

Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.

Recent studies confirm Vasuki Indicus, a 47-million-year-old snake discovered in India, rivaled Titanoboa in size. Both ...

SPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has settled into low-Earth orbit, providing a wellspring of publicly available space data.

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

The U.S. Space Force expects to soon award a second contract for its next batch of missile warning/missile tracking ...

Scientists Jan Zalasiewica and Erle Ellis on the recent decision to reject a proposal for a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.

Geologists on an international subcommission recently voted down a proposal to formally recognise that we have entered the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch representing the time when massive ...