Here are 20 striking wildlife images, candidates for the People’s Choice Award of the BigPicture Nature World Photography ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has provided extraordinary insights into the mysteries of Jupiter and its moons. Yet, during its 57th ...

Similar deep-sea volcanoes found on Earth support microbial life that lives inside solid rock without sunlight and oxygen.

On the volcanic island of Stromboli, all eyes are drawn to its high crater and the promise contained in the puffs of smoke ...

The 311-gram space rock was discovered in 2023 and is known as the Northwest Africa 16286 meteorite — and based on the decay ...

Bapa Rato holds the blade to the chicken’s throat. Moonlight glimmers on the steel. The grandparents, parents and children on ...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

July’s full moon is called "the Buck Moon” because in July, velvet antler growth, called antlerogenesis, makes an older buck’s rack often very noticeable and actually at its peak growth rate.

The Moon was volcanically active for a long time, but if we look at its mysterious ... making this a very important finding; the lander had previously found evidence of magmatic structures there. The ...

Scientists have recorded the "largest" earthquake swarm at Mount Rainier in Washington state since 2009, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The swarm at the second-most seismically active ...

This had been a missing piece of the puzzle for years, the scientists explained. To have had liquid water, Mars had to have a thicker atmosphere made up of a greenhouse gas like carbon dioxide. But ...

Two of the suspects had active arrest warrants and were booked into the San Juan Juvenile Detention Facility, officials said. The 19-year-old was found to not be involved in the crime and is ...