Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed thick, dusty layers of the Cat's Claw Nebula, a region of star formation about ...

Scientists created a simulation showing that early Earth still retained chemical traces of its igneous youth, 4.5 billion years ago.

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest – but an independent analysis shows they might be off by ...

Learn how emperor penguins adopt a complex choreography to form a huddle to stay warm in bitter Antarctic winds.

This year, the Buck Moon follows Earth's aphelion, the point in its orbit farthest from the Sun, by just a few days, ...

For over two decades, physicists have been working toward implementing quantum light storage—also known as quantum memory—in ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...