The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.

Last year was the hottest year on record, the top 10 hottest years were all in the past decade and planet-heating carbon ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar system. These findings can now provide information into the potential origins of ...

Mars is the Red Planet, but turns out the moon has the makings of a reddish cast, too. Yes, scientists have found rust on the moon. The question is: why?

Research suggests that microlightning from water droplets, rather than large lightning strikes, may have triggered life’s ...

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

Walt Disney World announced the name of its new Spaceship Earth lounge opening this year. GEO-82 is for adults only. Disney says it will offer reservations for guests 21 and older.

Although black hole radiation can be catastrophic in some cases, it may assist life once oxygen has accumulated in the planet ...

New connections discovered between the Sun's photosphere and CI chondrites meteorites, providing clues about the origin of materials.

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

Scientists from Keele University have found strong evidence that some of Earth’s past mass extinctions could have been caused by nearby supernova explosions—massive star explosions in the Milky Way.

New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images show the first carbon dioxide-containing planet discovered outside of Earth’s ...