Spending cuts and directives questioning the reality and urgency of climate change have marked quick shifts in U.S. science ...

The unifying message of Monday's all-woman rocket flight is that, for now, cold space belongs to the hot and rich ...

Researchers have built a powerful new 3D earthquake simulation that reveals how massive quakes like the 2023 Turkiye disaster ...

The land beneath the former Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is rising and will continue to do so for many decades. Now, ...

Finding evidence of life in the cosmos is the “holy grail” of exoplanet science, one of the scientists said, but there is ...

Imagery of fractured terrain on Venus, Mars, and Jupiter’s moon Europa pinpoints environments influenced by water.

The mission, jointly operated by the United States and India, will measure minute changes to land, ice, and ecosystems around ...

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

A new study suggests the universe may rotate -- just extremely slowly. The finding could help solve one of astronomy's biggest puzzles.

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

We know it’s getting warmer. Earth’s climate has changed naturally over thousands of years—through cycles of ice ages and ...

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the ...