Far below the surface, some of the world’s most secure facilities operate behind layers of reinforced concrete, blast doors, ...

Sediments from Scotland hint that ocean-atmosphere interactions continued more than 600 million years ago despite widespread ice.

The Sun is hot due to nuclear fusion in its core. Earth is in the "Goldilocks zone," safe from extreme heat. The Sun will shine for about 5 billion more years. Did our AI summary help? Have you ever ...

When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new oceans opened, continents drifted apart and the ...

When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were ...

An ultrathin protective coating proves sufficient to protect a perovskite solar cell from the harmful effects of space and harden it against environmental factors on Earth, according to newly ...

Great fighters don’t survive on reflexes or luck, they stack multiple lines of defense so when one fails, another saves them.

The 748-foot-long sediment core contains a record of roughly the past 23 million years, including periods when the planet's surface temperature was hotter than it is today ...

For weeks now, social media has been buzzing with claims that Earth’s “heartbeat” is surging, and that those spikes are ...

Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth’s crust but in our planet’s mantle, the layer sandwiched between the thin crust and Earth ...

When part of a SpaceX rocket re-entered Earth's atmosphere exactly a year ago, it created a spectacular fireball that streaked across Europe's skies, delighting stargazers and sending a team of ...