University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

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

Located 3,000 miles below the Earth's surface, the inner core is anchored by gravity within the molten liquid outer core. Until now the inner core was widely thought of as a solid sphere.

NASA’s Perseverance rover is making history by collecting handpicked Martian samples for future return to Earth. Scientists are eager to study these specimens to unlock secrets about Mars’ ancient ...

The Euclid space telescope, launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2023 to explore the dark universe, has made a stunning discovery: a perfect Einstein ring encircling the center of the NGC ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Seismic waves suggest the planet's solid inner core is being pulled out of shape – and it has undergone these changes over ...

In 2018, the side of the Anak Krakatau volcano collapsed in a powerful eruption and produced a tsunami that killed hundreds ...

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

The Java sparrow is ready for the video recording. As I hold it carefully in my hand in order to transfer it to the recording ...