As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ago, something unexpected happened deep beneath Earth’s surface. Large glaciers began to melt. The sea levels rose quickly—about 1 centimeter per ...

Pockets of water exist that are so salty they behave more like dense syrup than seawater. These deep, hidden lakes are called ...

A newly released image of the sun captured by the world's largest solar telescope shows the surface of our nearest star in ...

April brings us Citizen Science Month and Earth Day—that means it’s the perfect time to get outside, explore nature, and even ...

The thousands of satellites operated by companies from Starlink to Telesat will eventually burn up in the atmosphere when ...

The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature ’s photo team.

Of all their inquiries, there’s one question the students at Raisbeck Aviation High School never ask science teacher Scott McComb ... produced when a spacecraft reenters the Earth’s atmosphere. The ...

April 20 (Reuters) - A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has returned to Earth, Russia's Roscosmos space agency ...

This week has been a big leap for science. With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope ... It is a significant milestone in the quest seeking life outside Earth. Beyond the recent discovery, here ...

Found 120 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Leo ... One of the most outspoken advocates of caution is British physicist and science writer Mark Buchanan. Buchanan is cautioning ...

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“That’s how science has to work.” However, other experts believe that while the results promise excitement, confirming the existence of life beyond Earth — and even deciding what type of e ...