NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

Mr. Vance’s open admiration for Dr. Girard and his closeness to Mr. Thiel, arguably the world’s most prominent Girardian, has ...

European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...

This animated map shows how global populations are distributed across Earth by dividing the globe into slices covering 10% of ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems ...

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

Do you find yourself sitting in a cubicle, counting down the minutes until the weekend frees you from the monotony of daily life, just to realize that normal ma ...

The desert is where the Earth's coldest temperature ever was recorded and some areas haven't seen rain in more than 14 ...

The nature writer Robert Macfarlane probes some profound moral and environmental questions in “Is a River Alive?" ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The ...