On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a ...
Discover some of the deepest and most mysterious holes on Earth.
Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key ...
How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth’s dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big—and then think ...
Each year, the world's leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet is changing. Their assessments draw heavily on data from Earth-observing satellites—and the ...
Bad, bad, bad vibrations! A weather watchdog has reported an uptick in Earth’s “hum-like” heartbeat, raising concerns that it ...
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Flat Earth

Brian Cox tackles Flat Earth claims with clear science and humor, explaining the evidence for a round planet—from gravity to ...
Sediments from Scotland hint that ocean-atmosphere interactions continued more than 600 million years ago despite widespread ice.
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via IBN - IBN, a multifaceted communications organization engaged in ...
Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...
With an estimated 6 sextillion kilograms of the stuff—that’s 21 zeroes by the way—the Earth’s core is another example of why hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe.