Scientists now understand why seismic waves speed up near Earth's core. Extreme pressure and temperature cause solid mantle rock to flow sl...

An asteroid, 2024 YR4, once considered a potential Earth threat, now poses a 3.8% chance of hitting the Moon in 2032. Initially, NASA flagg...

Astronomers now suggest that the small celestial body, initially dubbed Earth’s “mini-moon” 2024 PT5, might be a lunar fragment. Discovered...

David Hole’s unwavering curiosity led to the discovery of the Maryborough meteorite, a 4.6-billion-year-old relic from space, found in Vict...

Ways to remove and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are among the federal government's national science and research priorities. Th...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft has begun its six-year journey to a metal-covered asteroid. This will be the first exploration of a metal world, w...

Astronomers have discovered a strange world, LTT9779b, which reflects 80% of its host star. The Neptune-sized planet is more than 260 light...

NASA has released a list of asteroids that will pass through the Earth on April 25. Here are the details.

Johannesburg, Sep 13 (IANS) Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest known abstract pencil drawing by human hand -- which looks like a pres...

Bengaluru, Nov 23 (IANS) A city-based geologist has discovered 2,000-million-year-old "prokaryotic" microfossils -- considered to be the ea...

New York, Oct 14 (IANS) A comet struck our home planet a long time ago and it could have triggered the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PE...

New York, Oct 4 (IANS) Driven by burning of fossil fuels, which consumes oxygen and produces carbon dioxide, the rate of oxygen decline fro...

NASA's Curiosity has been exploring sedimentary rocks within Gale Crater since landing in August 2012.

The primordial universe consisted mostly of hydrogen and helium, and lacked chemical elements like carbon and oxygen necessary for life as ...

This is the first measurement of the rotation of a massive exoplanet using direct imaging, researchers said.

Adding to the puzzle, some silica at one rock Curiosity drilled, called "Buckskin," is in a mineral named tridymite, rare on Earth and neve...

The researchers discovered the geochemical signature of erupted lavas reached continental crust-like composition about 10 million years ago.