Ancient fossils of the world's very first dinosaurs may be buried in places almost impossible to investigate, according to ...

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after President Donald Trump ordered it renamed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of ...

SpaceX plans to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from California's central coast today (Jan. 24). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink craft is scheduled to lift off from ...

Tonight and throughout January, stargazers can see a planetary alignment in the night sky or what some are calling a planetary parade.

An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never seen before. The exoplanet Enaiposha, or GJ 1214 b, is a hazy world ...

A solar explosion called a coronal mass ejection is poised to graze Earth on Friday or Saturday (Jan. 24 or Jan. 25), potentially triggering colorful auroras over the northern U.S.

Moving at roughly 20,505 miles per hour along the distant world's equator, it’s the fastest known jet stream that wraps around a planet ...

Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released Tuesday in Astronomy & Astrophysics astronomers who have been studying ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

New method harnesses Earth's natural forces to produce ammonia sustainably, offering a greener alternative to fertilizer production.

Good Acoustics The mystery of two continent-sized structures buried deep in the Earth's mantle has produced a new twist after scientists got a closer look at their composition, suggesting they might ...