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

Sean Kirkpatrick ran the government's investigation into UFOs, so he knows a lot about how misinformation and disinformation ...

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.

A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...

Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...

A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

James Scott Comedian Becky Robinson went viral for her character “the Entitled Housewife,” who is an archetype well-known to ...

The stock of the the first private company to land a spacecraft intact on the moon soared as much as 66% Wednesday, the ...

The President’s Budget for 2025, released on March 11, sparked chaos in the astronomy community. To account for a 3 percent cut to NASA’s science budget, NASA administrators reduced funding levels for ...

Levels of methane in the atmosphere have soared by record-breaking amounts since 2020, according to new research.

Human activities now account for two-thirds of all methane venting to the atmosphere, and our efforts to staunch the flow are ...