(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to ...

Proponents of going to Mars see peril and opportunity in Elon Musk's close relationship with Trump. Experts say just getting ...

Galileo precedes today’s physicists by many generations, but his work underscores the interplay of intellect and observation ...

On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

Paleontological discoveries are becoming more and more surprising, especially considering the latest find by a group of experts who have discovered what is known as a new type of d ...

Scientists have identified a new threat that could disrupt the commercial airspace as at least three deadly crashes have ...

An annual safety report to NASA has both praise and also underscores a number of cautionary woes, including the space ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...