Three scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography will be honored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU ...

Thanks to some old data and New Mexico researchers, we know of one more exoplanet in the Milky Way. A group of scientists at ...

Researchers found that eroded lava rubble beneath the South Atlantic can trap enormous amounts of CO2 for tens of millions of ...

In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

An "extra exceptional" Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns, has been discovered. Astronomers say the "huge" new world ...

New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through ...

A stunning new discovery suggests sponges, and animals, existed 100 million years earlier than we ever imagined.

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Curiosity has been exploring the surface of Mars since 2011, but what it found inside a rock last year has changed our ...

Researchers discovered microplastics floating in the air above the Beagle Channel, a remote area in South America.

A year of new treatments, new technologies, new ways to stay safe during disasters and new insights on the mysteries of the ...

A Charleston astronomy professor answers astronomy students' questions about worm holes, black holes, colonizing Mars, outer space's many strange odors and more, ...