A bullet-speed experiment reveals that the Earth's inner core may be softer and more dynamic than previously thought.

A pull in the right direction ...

A 2020 satellite photo shows the immense power of 7-story waves crashing along the Portuguese coast. Later the same day, a ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

This doesn’t mean Mars causes ice ages on its own. Orbital cycles are only part of the picture. Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, ...

This week's science news was led by a spate of climate stories that were as worrying as they were fascinating. Topping the bill are microbes that were woken up after lying frozen in the Alaskan ...

The planet HD 189733 b was discovered in 2005, as one of many huge gas worlds snuggled tightly against their suns. It gradually gained popularity for .

P arts of the ocean reached temperatures of -15°C (5°F) without freezing 717-660 million years ago, geologists and ...

A newly detected super-Earth just 20 light-years away is giving scientists one of the most promising chances yet to search for life beyond our solar system. The discovery of the exoplanet orbiting in ...

Before Earth, there was “proto Earth,” a primitive hunk of rock that formed four and a half billion years ago. It was drastically different to the Earth we know today, heaving with lava and rock all ...

From a distance, it looks like a serene blue twin of our own world, a dot that could almost pass for Earth in a telescope ...