New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions of years.

A new study reveals Earth's magnetic flips can last up to 70,000 years, exposing life to increased solar radiation.

Astronomers using ALMA have found large quantities of methanol in comet 3I/ATLAS, making it one of the most alcohol-rich ...

When we want to weigh something, the process is simple. We place it on a weighing machine or on a traditional balance. The number appears and we insta.

Space scientist Maggie Aderin talks telescopes, neurodiversity and being underestimated with Rowan Hooper on the New ...

Astronomers have spotted something unusual in a comet passing through our Solar System. 3I/ATLAS, only the third confirmed interstellar visitor ever seen, appears to be stuffed with methanol, an ...

Lead researcher Nathan Roth said the image shows the comet is “bursting with methanol in a way we just don’t usually see.” ...

A near-impenetrable plateau in Central Africa allowed elephants to hide from humans for years. The same landscape could also be their savior.

Scientists at Curtin University have uncovered a new way to read the deep history of Earth’s landscapes using microscopic zircon crystals from ancient beach sands. These incredibly durable minerals ...

A river in Australia may have been flowing for 300 to 400 million years, long before dinosaurs existed. How did the ancient Finke River survive dramatic geological changes for so long?

WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - A supernova - the explosion marking the end of a massive star's life - is one of the brightest cosmic events, usually about a billion times more luminous than the sun.

There is something humbling about realizing that the most urgent climate questions we wrestle with today were, in many ways, already being answered decades ago. Scientists, policymakers, and ordinary ...