Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental ...

Think of it this way: only around 10,000 decently sized meteorites slam into Earth per year. Meanwhile, the planet is ...

Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion ...

On Sept. 24, thousands of BYU students lined up on Helaman Fields, waiting with anticipation for one of the university’s most ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

Geophysicists have modeled how Earth’s magnetic field could form even when its core was fully liquid. By removing the effects ...

Exploring the four fundamental particles photon, electron, quark, and neutrino that make up everything in the universe.

A team of astronomers believe they may have found the most "pristine" star in the universe to date. According to the team, the gas that formed this star may have come from an elusive "population III" ...

On this day in science history Sept. 17, 1999: Jesse Gelsinger died after receiving a gene therapy treatment to treat a liver ...

Astronomers have recently uncovered an extraordinary star, SDSS J0715-7334, which may be the most “pristine” object ever discovered. Located in the halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud, this star offers ...