O ne billion years ago, Earth was boring as hell. Animals were yet to evolve and most life was small, simple, and slimy. Even ...

A spacecraft named BepiColombo is currently zipping by planet Mercury, making a very close flyby and snapping incredible high ...

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An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new observations with the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, have let astronomers read the entrails, astronomers report ...

The drilling bot can silently burrow just about anywhere. It could unlock geothermal as a viable backyard energy source.

The Mariana Trench is the deepest place on Earth, and we're still in the dark about much of the life that calls it home. Here ...

Ever wonder what’s going on beneath your feet? Take the East African Rift, for example. This massive crack in the Earth’s ...

Earth consists of seven continents with widely different ecosystems and human cultures, so it would be fascinating to think what the world might look like in 200 to 300 million years’ time ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

Microgrid technology is uniquely capable of protecting the reliability of our energy supply in the wake of extreme weather ...

Nov. 13, 2024 — An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of ...