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.

​​In pursuit of prestige and riches, wealthy people across medieval Europe worked in vain to transmute everyday metals into ...

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 ...

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

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

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

By Annette Hinkle Summer is the season for books — and when it comes to selecting a title to dive into on the East End, readers often gravitate toward beach-themed mysteries or romance novels. While m ...

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

The science in these cartoons can teach your kids important lessons while being fun and entertaining! Here's why they are ...

Researchers are developing a thorium-229 nuclear clock so sensitive it could detect the faint, wave-like effects of dark matter, potentially solving one of physics’ greatest mysteries.