President Trump says we are going to Mars, and his friend Elon Musk has demonstrated a capacity to make it happen.

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...

Deep beneath the Zagros Mountains, an ancient oceanic plate is tearing apart, dragging the Earth’s crust with it. What was ...

There's a new race in space, but it's not where you might think. It's happening close to home – in the nearest bit of space, ...

It’s a small world. It’s a wide world. Both phrases are used in lyrics, titles and more. A more accurate statement might be: Earth’s circumference (at the equator) is 24,901 ...

Ultimately, our country’s startup community has every reason to be optimistic. For more than half a century, Emirati leaders ...

President Donald Trump's comments that the U.S. should take long-term control of war-shattered Gaza and that the area's ...

Rising global temperatures may render extensive regions of the planet too hot for human survival over the coming decades.

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

Just half a degree rise of global warming will triple the size of the area of Earth that is considered to be too hot for ...