A supercomputer simulation of iron and carbon atoms in Earth’s inner core may explain how a molten ball at the centre of our planet froze solid ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

In her new collection of Wall Street Journal columns, Pulitzer Prize-winner Peggy Noonan writes about the history and ...

"GEORGE MASA: A LIFE REIMAGINED" by Janet McCue and Paul Bonesteel (Smokies Life, 320 pages, $29).

However, history has shown us that the Mediterranean Sea is in a very precarious position. Around 5.97 million years ago, an event called the Messinian salinity crisis occurred whereby the ...

“If you extract all the DNA, you have DNA from living organisms and also DNA that can represent organisms that just died or ...

The Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico transmitted the most powerful known interstellar message in 1974. The facility's ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

Start-ups say we’re closer than ever to near-limitless, zero-carbon energy from fusion. When will we get there?

BEIJING -- Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Monday after a six-month ... crew last week for the latest six-month mission. The new team of one woman and two men will conduct ...

Welcome to The A.V. Club’s monthly comics preview, where we recommend new books to check out over the next few weeks. This month, we’ve got five exciting picks, ranging from environmental ...