For decades, scientists have been baffled by two enormous, enigmatic structures buried deep inside Earth with features so ...

A new study uncovered fresh chemical evidence of life in rocks more than 3.3 billion years old, along with molecular traces showing that oxygen-producing photosynthesis emerged nearly a billion years ...

New global stress map reveals areas where the Earth's crust is on the verge of collapse, doubling the data and changing ...

Far above Earth, scientists are using quantum sensors to listen for the faintest whispers of unseen forces that may weave through the universe. Scientists are constantly searching for new clues about ...

The team discovered that the surface might contain liquid water, an essential ingredient for life. Astronomers from the, Irvine have discovered a planet orbiting within the “habitable zone” of its ...

Strong and weak rocks transform the landscape through erosion, and a new study reveals that soil resistance alters this erosion by up to 20x.

You may have heard of a bog — those wet, mucky environments found mostly in the northern temperate pockets of Canada or ...

KOI 5715.01, a planet 3,000 light-years away, offers superior habitability to Earth with a longer-lived star and billions more years for life to evolve.