Earth is a rare cosmic body which supports life with just the right balance of ingredients and is in the optimal zone near the Sun where it is warm enough for life to thrive. Our planet has an ...

Most of the recorded glacial earthquakes were discovered along the coast of Greenland, the largest ice cap in the Northern ...

January’s full moon, known as the “Wolf Moon,” will be visible through Saturday as the first full moon of 2026.

Imagining every drop of Earth’s water hurled into the Sun sounds like a last-ditch cosmic fire extinguisher, but the physics ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

Settled in a seaside hotel during a late fall vacation, I had a quick breakfast overlooking the Pacific Ocean and brought ...

Here's how the astronomical phenomenon influences our planet—from the length of our seasons to the way Earth moves through ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my research would eventually lead me to ask a question about the origin of ...

For years, coastal communities around the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico have watched towering mats of sargassum roll ashore. The seaweed piles stretch for miles, rot in the sun, choke coastlines with ...

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t pose a threat to life Earth’s magnetic field surrounds the planet, with ...

In the fascinating world of insects, few defensive mechanisms are as dramatic and self-sacrificing as that of the exploding ant. These remarkable creatures, primarily from the Colobopsis cylindrica ...