Astronomers have mapped the turbulent edge of the Sun where solar matter manages to escape the Sun's fierce magnetic grip.

Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an ...

Deep in the Arctic Circle, in Russia, lies the deepest hole ever dug which was once called 'the entrance to hell'. The Kola ...

Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November 2026, ...

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An international team of researchers led by The University of New Mexico set out to understand how these mature faults break ...

UC Davis engineers have invented a Stirling engine that captures Earth’s escaping heat to generate power from the night sky.

Under the surface of the ocean, "constellations" of towering subsea mountains dot the Earth – and they are teeming with ...

Allegra Rumbough and Marissa Macrae got engaged in an 'extraordinary' proposal in Antarctica. 'I couldn’t imagine a more ...

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Scientists fear warming is driving a collapse in the ocean currents that shape climate far and wide. The ice-choked waters ...

The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It ...