The HEXAGON KH-9 reconnaissance satellites were the largest and last U.S. intelligence satellites to return photographic film ...

Traditionally, eclipse maps have been constructed from the assumption that the Moon is a perfect sphere and that all ...

Iron carried in clouds of Saharan dust blown across the Atlantic Ocean is increasingly available to tiny life forms the further it travels.

THE mystery of an “alien song” heard coming from the deepest point on Earth has finally been revealed. The Mariana Trench is one of the most mysterious places on Earth, measuring over ...

Microbes, after all, play enormously consequential roles in the world around us and within us—I should credit the trillions ...

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

China set to unveil long-term vision for space science The Chinese Academy of Sciences is aiming to accelerate its progress ...

A lecture series can promise much.  But one run out of a corporatised university comes with its own burdens and ...

A new study co-led by the University of Arizona and the Smithsonian offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's ...

The ring would have gradually fallen to Earth as meteorites, correlating to a spike of impacts seen in the geological record.

Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.

In Puerto Rico and other hard-hit places, marine researchers are trying to restore reefs and make corals more resilient — with some recent success.