The National Science Foundation COLDEX project drilled three Allan Hills cores from depths of 150, 159, and 206 meters (492, 522, and 676 feet, respectively). In these cores, the researchers hoped to ...

In the beginning, when planets were newborn, they glowed like furnaces, vast oceans of molten rock wrapped in heavy blankets ...

Wadisuchus kassabi is both a new species and the first member of a new genus, or group of species that share physical similarities and an evolutionary line. The species was named after the valley ...

In Yorgos Lanthimos' film, Emma Stone is not an alien intent on destroying Earth — if only anyone would listen ...

Scientists found two Earth-sized planets and a third candidate orbiting a nearby double star system, TOI-2267.

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a ...

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have discovered a new species of spider living in the state's coastal sand dunes.

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

The discovery of non-cyanobacteria diazotrophs underneath Arctic sea ice could change our understanding of the food web, as ...

Carbon sustains life—but excess emissions are driving climate change. WWF is working to restore balance and protect our ...

Exoplanets—worlds orbiting distant stars—were once only theory, until scientists found the first evidence beyond our solar ...

A jury is set for a second day of deliberations in the murder trial of a sheriff’s deputy in the shooting death of Sonya ...