Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...

Using a combination of telescopes, astronomers have characterized the closest supernova linked to a fast X-ray transient. The ...

Alien: Earth, the upcoming FX TV series, is highly anticipated and was also inspired by a children's fairy tale.

Due to the radiative thermal conductivity of the mineral olivine, only oceanic plates over 60 million years old and ...

Each year in the U.S., an estimated 6.1 million people are treated for skin cancer, and that number is growing.

While the Sun appears placid to the naked eye, it is a roiling sphere of ionized gas or plasma, shaped by powerful magnetic ...

An astronaut has captured an incredible burst of electricity above Earth. NASA's Nichole Ayers managed to snap a phenomenon ...

Scientists have long wondered how Earth’s continents first formed. Now, a team of geologists from the University of Hong Kong ...

The twin caverns, El Pakiva and Tecopa, showcase some of California’s most unusual cave decorations. Marvel at the “cave ...

Micrometeorites raining down from space may have provided the perfect surfaces for the first primitive cells to form on Earth ...

A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t ...