Comets SWAN and Lemmon will both swing by Earth and appear bright in the sky near the end of October. Here’s how to see them.

About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

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The appearance of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere was a turning point in the history of our planet, forever transforming the environment and setting the stage for complex life. This event, known as the ...

Scientists found that carbon enabled Earth’s core to solidify. Without it, the inner core may not exist. A team of scientists ...

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could ...

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how ...

Our most plausible creature is the large blood-sucking tick. On Earth, the deer tick Ixodes do swell to the size of a walnut ...

An insurer used satellite images to flag a homeowner’s roof. Find out how AI and aerial data are reshaping home insurance.

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

The impact that carved out the South Pole-Aitken basin on the moon appears to have come from the north, not the south as ...

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great ...