Elon Musk's internet satellites have been a game changer for people in rural areas, but scientists are alarmed that plans to ...

The continent drifts northeast at about 2.7 inches (7cm) per year - a rate so significant that GPS coordinates must be ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

The moon may still be geologically active, judging from the way the lunar far side is wrinkling as the moon contracts. At ...

Project Phoenix’ was initiated by small research organisation known as the SETI Institute. But it was lucky to get off the ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

About 66 million years ago, just before the mass extinction that wiped out the ... Paul Olsen, a professor of earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University who was not involved in the fossil ...

It coincides with one of Earth’s largest mass extinctions ... The ability of Norwegian brown algae to withstand drying out during low tide developed around 100 million years ago. Now, centuries of ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...