As telescopes have become more powerful, it's turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...

When you’re a kid, everything feels as big as the whole universe. Every win is a triumph, and every loss cuts like a knife.

A 410-million-year-old fossil shows ancient lichens were shaping Earth’s surface long before forests took root.

Ancient rocks reveal a potassium-40 deficit, the first physical evidence of the proto-Earth and insights into early planetary ...

Scientists have long wondered why Earth's overall makeup doesn't fully match the mix of materials found in ancient meteorites ...

Shades State Park in Waveland is 3,082 acres of geological wonders that somehow remains one of the Hoosier State’s best-kept secrets. Just an hour west of Indianapolis, this natural playground offers ...

Once described as a tropical paradise, the coastal town of Black River, Jamaica, is now being compared to “hell on Earth” ...

A third go-round of his ‘Tis the Grinch Holiday Podcast’ will feature Mark Hamill, Rob Gronkowski and others. It’s the latest ...

Your every breath serves as a reminder that the atmosphere of Earth is silently carrying out its function. Since air is ...

(Left) Schematic illustration of a kink structure. (Center) Kink bands observed in mudstone near Fort Island, Rhode Island. (Right) Large-scale kink structure in Southern California, USA. Your first ...

The Last Kids on Earth and the Destructor's Lair by Max Brallier and Douglas Holgate is the latest in a series of graphic novels published by Viking Press. It will have a 250,000-copy print run when ...

Three new spacecraft successfully launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, inaugurating missions to better understand the sun and its effects on Earth. One satellite is the ...