Why does humanity live on a planet orbiting a rare G-type dwarf star (like our Sun) when M-type red dwarfs comprise 82% of ...

When Apollo 17 astronauts collected a small rock from the moon more than 50 years ago, they had no way of knowing it would ...

A massive quake struck Calama, Chile, in 2024, surprising scientists with its unusual depth and destructive power. Unlike ...

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...

A study is defying a 100-year-old belief about what keeps the world's highest mountain range aloft. The Himalayas have been standing tall in Asia ever since they were formed 50 million years ago. As ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...