Scientists have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice core at Little Dome C in East Antarctica. Extracted during the ...

The moon causes a second phenomenon that affects Earth’s rotation on a human timescale. Beachgoers know full well that the moon’s gravity causes the seas’ daily high and low tides, and the solid Earth ...

This summer a few factors are adding up to make a handful of Earth’s spins—those occurring on July 10, July 22 and August 5—more than a millisecond faster than the average of the past several decades.

Astronomers spotted the ultramassive black hole inside the Cosmic Horseshoe, an equally gargantuan galaxy so powerful that it ...

​​In pursuit of prestige and riches, wealthy people across medieval Europe worked in vain to transmute everyday metals into gold. Today, this process, known as chrysopoeia, is mostly dismissed as an ...

The solar system consists of eight planets, several dwarf planets, hundreds of moons, and billions of asteroids, comets and ...

Unassuming, icicle-like tubes could help answer mysteries about Earth’s climate. They are the world’s oldest ice cores, which have just landed in the UK after being drilled from the depths of ...

Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, may not be alone. And its potential companion may be responsible for ...

One of the many biological wonders of life on Earth is the near-perfect ways our bodies can sense the passage of time. Known ...

Sci-fi series get cancelled so often that we are diving back into the archives to choose seven more show that should get a ...

To nail the presentation, NASA brought von Braun, its most celebrated engineer, to do the talking. After all, they were ...

Chipmatic is a factory building game where you control a mining robot on a mission to reach Earth’s core. Explore deep ...