The arid hills of Western Australia’s Pilbara region contain the earliest evidence yet of tectonic plates sliding across Earth’s surface. Tiny magnetic crystals locked in the bedrock recorded the ...

A photon emitted from a star a billion light-years away arrives at a telescope having experienced no time whatsoever. Not ...

Composite of Earth and the Moon from Galileo data. (NASA/JPL/USGS) The constant, omnidirectional hail of cosmic rays that ...

For a few hours each lunar day, the radiation environment near the moon quietly shifts. Measurements now suggest that parts of the moon’s orbit pass through a region where harmful cosmic radiation ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, Earth’s magnetic field behaved in a way that has long baffled scientists, showing wild and ...

Judge Gleason granted the defendants' motion to dismiss, and did so 'with prejudice,' meaning such a suit can never be brought again.

A new study from Harvard geoscientists reports the oldest direct evidence yet of plate motion, dating to 3.5 billion years ago. In a study published March 19 in Science, the researchers found that ...

An IMU is a compact, high-precision device that captures how an object moves and orients itself in space. Whether steering ...

Orion is in space, the Artemis II crew is returning from the moon, and you can follow their journey without leaving Earth.

Scientists in England have discovered a strange 215-million-year-old “greyhound crocodile” named Galahadosuchus jonesi.

For the first time since Apollo 17, humans returned to the Moon, not to land, but to glide past it in a breathtaking, tightly ...

Scientists say they have uncovered new clues in Australia about when plate tectonics began on Earth, the only known planet to have the geological process.