Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new discoveries about an extreme form of planetary destruction: apparently ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released Tuesday in Astronomy & Astrophysics astronomers who have been studying ...

Biomedical engineering researchers Jean Fan, Casey Taylor among a select group of scientists and engineers recognized ...

Exponential growth in big data and computing power is transforming climate science, where machine learning is playing a critical role in mapping the physics of our changing climate.

Moving at roughly 20,505 miles per hour along the distant world's equator, it’s the fastest known jet stream that wraps around a planet ...