Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Because oxygen-bearing sulfate minerals trap and preserve signals from Earth's atmosphere, scientists closely study how they ...

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

Earth, called Ross 508 b, orbiting a small red dwarf star just 37 light-years from Earth. The discovery, made using the ...

A new study may have solved a magnetic field mystery contained in 550-million-year-old rocks.