“When the first results came in, we realized that we had literally struck gold,” Nils Messling, a geochemist at Göttingen ...

If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice sheets may melt ...

A few politicians are making news for accepting a once-fringe conspiracy theory that the Earth is flat. Voters aren't ...

On a windswept plateau high above the Arabian Sea, Sena Keybani cradles a sapling that barely reaches her ankle. The young ...

A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within one-third of the Earth-moon distance.

An Australian firm’s production of a heavy rare earth, a first outside of China, is a “major milestone” in diversifying a ...

Kosmos 482 rocketed into space in 1972 on a quest to reach Venus, but its journey was scuttled by an apparent engine ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft has plunged to Earth, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The half-ton ...