Tiny crystals preserved in ancient beach sands are offering scientists a new way to read the deep history of Australia’s landscapes.

For more than a century, the idea that life might have arrived on our planet from elsewhere in the cosmos sat at the fringes ...

When the world first saw the glowing orange ring of a black hole, it was not just a pretty picture. It was the visual proof ...

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic ...

In the bigger picture, "down" could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.

Hydrogen cyanide, a toxic chemical, may have helped spark the chemistry that led to life. When frozen, it forms crystals with ...

For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and ...

A small town in California was hit by earthquakes once every 22 years for over a century, setting the stage for a major ...

The moon is pretty inhospitable to humans, but recent research has found that it's surprisingly possible for breathable air ...

Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating ...

Sponges are among Earth's most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic ...