But real lightning would have struck infrequently—and mostly in open ocean, where organic compounds would have quickly ...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

Late on Thursday night and into the early hours of Friday, the full moon turned a beautiful reddish color as it drifted ...

The last time a dryly zany comedy from New Zealand involving fantastical shenanigans made me laugh this much, it was the original “What We Do in the Shadows.” Michael Duignan’s new film may not quite ...

Simply put, pi is a mathematical constant that expresses the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. It figures ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity—or not ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

An analysis of changes to global ecosystems has revealed that almost nowhere is untouched by the influence of humanity, with ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

Ready for a show? On the night of March 13 into the early hours of March 14, a total lunar eclipse will occur as the moon moves into the Earth's umbra, or shadow, turning the bright white lunar ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

Much like post-glacial rebound where the island of Greenland uplifted several inches out of the ocean after a massive glacier ...