An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

Get past the fake science, and the Taurid meteor shower foreshadows what could, one day, pose a troubling scenario.

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Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Claudia Steffensen and her husband were hiking in the northern Italian Alps when they discovered reptile and amphibian footprints imprinted on a gray rock. 'It ...

The Arecibo message contained an image of a man only. But what might seem a sexist choice deserves a more subtle ...

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

How much land, water, and other resources does our lifestyle require? And how can we adapt this lifestyle to stay within the limits of what the Earth can give? A new article tackles these questions.

With eight billion people, we use a lot of the Earth's resources in ways that are likely unsustainable. Klaus Hubacek, ...

Recent research suggests the exceptional fossils from China's Yixian Formation were preserved through natural sediment ...

A newfound rock-shelter in Tajikistan has artifacts created by ancient humans spanning 130,000 years. Along a stream in ...