Levels of potentially dangerous cosmic radiation in Earth's atmosphere rose to a two-decade high in November after a rare ...

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on ...

Ice masses are alive with activity, images reveal.

Searching for technosignatures—signs of technology on a planet that we can see from afar—remains a difficult task. There are ...

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.

Scientists can usually spot coronal mass ejections before they affect Earth—but this one snuck past coronagraphs and ...

Construction of a $60 million state-of-the-art rare earth processing and separation demonstration plant is complete in Upton, ...

Retired astronaut and current Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) celebrated NASA ’s “pretty exciting” announcement on Thursday after the space agency highlighted how scientists found sugars essential for life ...

Nuclear power startup Antares announced a $96 million Series B round Dec. 2 to fund work on developing small nuclear reactors ...