A science-themed video exploring the idea of digging a hole through Earth.

For 150 years, nobody has known what erased those missing chapters. In new research published in Nature, we finally provide ...

From eerie zones to spots that defy logic, these are the places on Earth where even scientists are still stumped for answers.

NASA’s Swift telescope reentered Earth’s atmosphere on Nov. 4 after a private rescue mission failed to boost it into a higher orbit.

Read an exclusive excerpt from her new book as Riley Black reveals, “The story of T. rex isn’t just blood and guts. The story ...

Earth science research and news. Read science articles on air quality, geology, meteorology, oceanography, paleontology and science and the environment.

As most of the world knows, January 1989 brought Alaska a spell of what lore-makers would call a Great Blue Cold. While the ...

A salt-loving Earth microbe showed growth after 160 days in warm brine under low pressure and an oxygen-free, carbon ...

University of Maine professor Alicia Cruz-Uribe and her colleagues were analyzing a box of rock samples from Mars when they ...

It’s called the Great Unconformity, and it’s a gap in the geologic record,” says Nicolas Flament, a geoscientist at the ...

One of NASA’s premier space telescopes plunged to Earth on Wednesday, ending its 22-year investigation of the universe’s ...

Please join the Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology (LoCSST) for the talk “Solar Wind Heavy Ions Within Earth’s Magnetosphere and Controls on Solar Wind Entry Identified Through Wind–ACE ...