A new study may have solved a magnetic field mystery contained in 550-million-year-old rocks.

Because oxygen-bearing sulfate minerals trap and preserve signals from Earth's atmosphere, scientists closely study how they ...

When the balance in reflectivity shifts, “the whole circulation of the climate will shift in order to transport energy from ...

The National Book Award-winning author’s new “cozy science fiction” novel takes place in the far future and pivots on the personhood of AI.

Science doesn’t typically include punchlines, meme-fame contagions, nor hawky-sized dragonflies. But when it comes to ...

According to one hypothesis, the comet is responsible for giving humans the swastika symbol, thousands of years in the past.

In April 2029, Apophis is predicted by NASA to come within 32,000 kilometers (20,000 miles) of the Earth's surface. Closer ...

Lindsay Nikole takes us on a bold, hilarious, and chaotic journey through the history of our planet, packed with bizarre ...

NASA launched an exoplanet-hunting experiment Oct. 1 despite the government shutdown. After the mission's end on Oct. 2, news ...

Born in 1946 in Changsha, Hunan province, Cai Gao is a painter and picturebook illustrator, and served as a juror at the 34th ...

Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion ...

How should we represent humankind to aliens? With Pioneer 10 and 11, Nasa fell short. Next time, we must do better ...