The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos on Oct. 7, meant to follow up on NASA's ...

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a ...

Richard Branson is going back to his balloon roots.

A vast, ancient slab of seafloor plunged beneath the Pacific Ocean and has hovered in Earth’s mantle for more than 120 ...

Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today ...

A new sunspot forming on the surface of the sun might be about to fling solar flares in our direction. The sunspot, named ...

Destructive land use, mismanagement and climate change are fueling a water disaster set to wreak havoc on economies and lives ...

The success of SpaceX’s massive new space vehicle promises a host of new projects, including the colonisation of Mars ...

Skywatchers: The supermoon on Oct. 17 is the closest moon's orbit to Earth this year and will appear huge and bright in the ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 23 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, ...

Geography textbooks describe the Earth's mantle beneath its plates as a well-mixed viscous rock that moves along with those ...

Cratons are believed to be the longest-lived regions of the Earth, but a new study shows how dynamic processes can cause ...