You’re probably used to the month of February having an extra day every four years, during the leap year. Timekeepers added that extra leap day because Earth completes one orbit around the Sun in ...

We are so excited to be back on Planet Earth after an incredible mission on the International Space Station,” NASA’s Jessica ...

The idea that Earth is flat has been disproven by centuries of observation and modern measurement, yet some people still ...

Diatoms. They are "microorganisms clad in glass shells" that drift in oceans and rivers, and they are astonishing entities ...

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) tells Kaitlan Collins that he stands by calling his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth the “biggest regret” ...

The 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry concerns a property called chirality, which may sound like an abstract science term but is actually all around you, all the time. Picture a spiral galaxy rotating in ...

The first sharks weren’t giants, but they established a blueprint that Mother Nature later supersized, creating the largest ...

Shockingly, the ocean covers the majority of our planet, but the absolute majority of it remains unexplored to this day.

A team attributed radio signals to the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b, which would be associated with auroras and a magnetic field ...

Chinese Smile satellite transmitted its first ultraviolet images of aurora over Earth's sunlit side in July 2026.

Strange radio signals have been detected from the direction of K2-155 d, about 238 light-years away. Here's what it could mean.

In the October 1, 2026 issue of Nature, a paper attributing the primary cause of the decadal millisecond fluctuations in the ...