When scientists talk about Earth’s history, they often mention huge numbers– billions of years, shifting continents, and ...

Silicon Valley’s love of Tolkien — and fantasy and science fiction more broadly — dates to its earliest days, when rooms at ...

A storm as ferocious as the one of 12,350 BC would likely cause complete mayhem if it were to strike Earth and its ...

Brazilian photographer and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado, known for his award-winning images of nature and humanity, has died at age 81.

At the end of the last ice age, the Earth was hit by the strongest solar storm ever known. If something similar occurred ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

The world's two gigantic ice sheets are in greater peril from global warming than previously thought, a study published May 20 says.

It happened 4.5 billion years ago, when the solar system was full of orbiting space rocks. This debris clumped up in a ...

Jim Irsay, the Indianapolis Colts’ owner who leveraged the popularity of Peyton Manning into a new stadium and a Super Bowl ...

Ever wonder what kind of genius is being conjured inside the labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology?

The tireless work carried out by human beings to learn more about the world around us continues and adds shocking new discoveries. In this case, the collaboration between astronome ...