Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

A new study finds that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years — and pinpoints why.

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

Understanding chorus waves is vital, as they create fast-moving, highly energetic electrons (known as killer electrons) that ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private U.S. spacecraft bound for the moon has captured stunning images of Earth one week into ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

An extremely slow pulsar has made scientists “slow down” their assumptions about other pulsars. The pace could be caused by a ...

The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample ...