Many climate experts see its deserts as a place to build the green-energy future. For two local activists, the price is too ...

A solar explosion called a coronal mass ejection is poised to graze Earth on Friday or Saturday (Jan. 24 or Jan. 25), ...

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

Trump’s fascination with Greenland is not a new idea. For more than a thousand years, colonial aspirations have shaped the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Skywatchers are set to be dazzled by the northern lights over the coming hours, as a geomagnetic storm builds.

A polar day is when the sun does not set and stays above the horizon for an extended period, while a polar night is when the ...

To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been uncovered as missing information rather than designating them areas where no ...

This incident adds to the long list of close calls for the Long March 3B, a Chinese launch vehicle that has faced scrutiny ...

A University of Derby study led by Dr. Phethean proposes Earth has six continents, not seven. Using advanced geological ...