In 1974, astronomers sent a call out into the cosmos from a massive telescope in Puerto Rico. The anniversary of the message brings reflections on a new missive to the stars and grief for a lost ...

New research from the University of Colorado Boulder provides evidence supporting the 'Snowball Earth' theory. Geologists ...

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped ...

Weak electric field discovered in Earth's atmosphere. Electric field crucial to understanding polar wind flow. Field could explain why Earth is habitable.

Researchers have discovered that industrial pollution can cause liquid clouds to turn into ice clouds when it is cold.

In April, the astronomer said that he had discovered a large asteroid with a diameter of about 200 meters, potentially dangerous for the Earth ...

Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

Along with fossils of roots, pollen, and spores, the amber provides some of the best evidence yet that a mid-Cretaceous, ...

A rare Triassic fossil unearthed in Brazil, Gondwanax paraisensis, could provide new insights into the origins of dinosaurs.

Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a ...

New research explores if the moon was captured by Earth or formed by a collision. Scientists weigh theories, analyzing lunar ...

A new species of bee has been discovered in Oklahoma and Texas, according to the OU says a recent study published in the journal “Ecology and Evolution” features the blue-colored mining bee and how it ...