Apophis is the ancient Greek name for the Egyptian god of chaos Apep. The deity is also linked to earthquakes, thunder, ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Imagine being able to watch Earth breathe, capturing each subtle shift in the ground, tracking everything from tectonic ...

Scientists have identified one of the largest carbon-based molecules in space yet. It could help us decode the origins of ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, Canadian researchers have identified a new type of microscopic organism, hemimastigotes, which ...

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

For a long time, astronomers believed that extremely high-energy radiation was produced only in the jets of active galaxies, far from Earth. But new observations from the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov ...

When plumes of magma well up through Earth's lithosphere, they create volcanoes, islands, seamounts, and other features on ...

A 3-D map of the strange remains of a supernova seen in 1181 traces the odd tendrils of gas that jut out for several light-years in all directions.

Scientists develop technique to transform Kevlar into graphene that combines health monitoring sensors and optical controls, ...