Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (left) shakes hands with House Majority Leader Steve Scalise at the tariff announcement Wednesday. (Jim LoScalzo- Pool via CNP/Zuma Press) Treasury Secretary Scott ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union’s Venera 8 spacecraft became the second ever to land on Venus. It operated for 50 minutes in the ...

We've discovered that a meteorite struck northwest Scotland 1 billion years ago, 200 million years later than previously ...

The spacecraft suffered an engine anomaly that left it stuck in Earth's orbit for decades, and now it's slated for an ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, WI — Microsoft has paused construction on portions of its $3.3 billion data center project ... “In recent years, demand for our cloud and AI services grew more than we ...

Venus today is a hellish world with scorching temperatures reaching 864°F (462°C), crushing atmospheric pressure 92 times that of Earth, and clouds of sulfuric acid. Yet, this inhospitable planet, ...

Carbon dioxide is the main climate-regulating greenhouse gas on Earth, as it is on Mars and Venus. Its presence in the ...

An intriguing study published in Nature analyzed water chemistry in the Earth’s oceans during the Archaean eon, a critical point in our planet’s evolution about 3.8 to 1.8 billion years ago.

But the whole planet probably transitioned to the plate tectonic system later, between 3.2 billion and 2.7 billion years ago. There's far more evidence of rocks getting recycled and pushed around ...