As a space scientist, every time I go outside with my family, I tell my children to look up at the sky. The front door of our ...

As a space scientist , every time I go outside with my family, I tell my children to look up at the sky. The front door of our home looks southeast ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may have been born in a colossal cosmic crash. New research suggests Titan formed when two older moons slammed together hundreds of millions of years ago—an event so ...

A massive upheaval in the Saturnian system could have also led to the moon Hyperion.

A terrazzo star map at Hoover Dam turns a sunny overlook into a 26,000-year clock marking human ambition against moving stars now.

Radiative forcing operates on all timescales over Earth’s history (Ruddiman, 2001). This includes (1) geological timescales (tens of millions of years) over which the output of the Sun, concentrations ...

An Archaeologist has uncovered evidence of a lost civilization' that hid a sophisticated code around the world.

Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...

A persistent "gravity hole" beneath Antarctica gives scientists a window into Earth's deep interior, showing how processes far below reshape the planet's gravity field over millions of years.

The “gravity hole” formed at least 70 million years ago after convection in Earth’s mantle. The weak gravity could impact our ...

The temperate rainforests of the Chilean Coast Range are home to a spectacular array of life: iridescent blue lizards, tiny wild cats called kodkods, and curly vines of waxy red bellflowers. Towering ...

The Great Unconformity is a major gap in Earth's geologic record. The missing layer between Precambrian and Cambrian rocks ...