How did woolly mammoths survive the last ice age? And how thick was the ice over New York City? Test your knowledge by taking ...

The gigantic coronal hole is blasting high-speed solar wind toward Earth, potentially igniting vibrant auroras and minor ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But ...

About 99% of Earth is uninhabitable; in deep underground places with high pressure and temperature, even the toughest ...

Using nearly four decades of seismic data from stations encompassing the northern, central, and southern Sierra Nevada along ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

Found by Dr Michael Cretignier of the University of Oxford, the planet has a mass six times greater than Earth's and orbits ...

Solar material is gusting out of the dark patch in the Sun's corona towards Earth at more than a million miles per hour.

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor for how close the world is to being inhabitable for humanity. Scientists just set the new ...

Today, with 8 billion humans on this planet, the few wealthy countries are extracting natural resources at alarming rates, ...

NASA is tracking the path of a huge asteroid that will come hurtling past Earth at a staggering speed of 35,000mph later ...