In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have uncovered the remnants of an ancient glacier, possibly over a million years old, buried within the permafrost of a remote island in the Canadian Arctic.

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

In fact, the discovery actually supports a key part of the theory about how chorus waves work. Using data from the ...

Magnetic field data collected by ESA's Swarm satellites and other sources has been coverted into these frightening sounds. The "audio represents the magnetic field generated by Earth's core and a ...

Magnetars are known to have enormous magnetic fields which are hundreds trillions times stronger the Earth magnetic fields. Due to these fields magnetars are bright and variable sources of X-ray ...

"LEXI will be calibrated daily until we land on the Moon. The payload will then capture a series of X-ray images to study the ...

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It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of colliding with Earth in about eight years. Such an impact ...

If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid that ...