Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

"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 ...

Titanoboa, as wide as an oil drum, crushed its prey with a powerful bite that had a muscle force of approximately 400 psi.

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.

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 agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest? New research suggests they are.

For over half a billion years, Earth’s magnetic field has risen and fallen in sync with oxygen levels in the atmosphere, and scientists are finally uncovering why. A NASA-led study reveals a ...