Earth’s crust potentially holds a huge, untapped geothermal energy source: superhot rocks. Tapping into this geothermal ...

Ancient volcanic rock from South Africa has been found to harbour primitive bacteria, which may shed light on some of the ...

It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.

Most animals (excluding the seemingly immortal among us) are defined by relatively short lifespans. While we might live “long ...

Lava that erupts from hotspots around the world seems to come from a similar ancestral magma, new research finds.

The team found that, by including a softer layer at the base of the moon's mantle, it was easier to reproduce the observed ...

The asteroids, named 2018 QE, 2024 TD3, and 2024 TK3, are part of NASA's ongoing efforts to monitor space objects.

A recently discovered comet, known as C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, will make its closest approach of Earth on Saturday.

Legislation would expand the list of “limited mining operations” that can skip environmental and public review to include ...

An outcrop in Scotland has material from when the Earth went into a deep freeze. Some evidence for the cause of geology’s ...

Before Earth became the blue planet, it was engulfed by a very different kind of ocean: a vast, deep magma ocean reaching ...