Depending on where you live, Yellowstone might be the most famous (or infamous) supervolcano. But there are plenty other of ...

(via BBC Earth) 66 million years ago, an asteroid struck Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs and changing our planet forever. How ...

How can scientists detect dangerous sunspots they can't even see? Astrophysicist Sarbani Basu explores a groundbreaking ...

In 1656, Christiaan Huygens invented a pendulum clock that, based on the period of its pendulum swings, could measure time ...

Ancient gas reserves, trapped for millions of years beneath the Arctic permafrost, are finding a way to the surface. With an ...

Some black holes may be older than the stars themselves. One could even be hiding inside our sun. And their existence could ...

PhD candidate may have solved one of Earth’s most perplexing geological mysteries – what caused the Great Unconformity?

New evidence from gas seeping above volcanic rifts suggests Mars is not geologically dead deep inside, but merely sleeping. Fresh fissures along the Alba Mons region hint at active spots under the sur ...

A new toothbrush generates electricity through bristle movement to wage war on plaque-producing pathogens. The invention ...

It’s a dizzyingly busy time for scientists searching for life on distant planets. To date, astronomers have cataloged more ...

A new evolutionary theory suggests changes in body size, rather than competition for food and habitat, may drive the earliest physical differences between species.

A survey of 50,000 people across 92 countries finds global mental health may be languishing, including in the wealthiest countries, and especially among young people, who in previous generations had c ...