The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have taken a major step toward developing lightsails that could one day ...

A new study ... sheet of ice—a sheet that is slowly thinning and retreating. “Volcanic activity has been shown to affect Earth’s climate in a myriad of ways,” the authors write. “One ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 ... author of a new study describing the landforms, told Live Science.

An orbiting radar operates on the same principles as one tracking planes at an airport. The spaceborne antenna emits microwave pulses toward Earth ... in a wide range of science toward a common ...

a new study suggests. The research, which was on the fundamentals of how materials rupture, focused on cracks snaking through sheets of plastic in a laboratory. But the experiments revealed some ...

Researchers have discovered geologic evidence that suggests California is 'peeling apart' deep beneath Earth's surface. This ...

Now, a new study led by Durham University – and published in Nature Geoscience journal – has shown one of the ... Shining a light on Earth’s shrinking ice sheets Coastal communities are under threat ...

The Coldest Place on Earth Antarctica is the epitome of frigid climates, with temperatures that can make you shiver just ...

As global heat records are obliterated, scientists conclude it’s a signal the planet is likely on track to breach the Paris ...

The waves were detected in an area called the terrestrial mid-tail neutral sheet ... seen near Earth. They are "one of the strongest and most significant waves in space," said study author ...