Children are always asking "Why?" As they experience things for the first time, it's natural to want to find out more. But as ...
Scientists have long been puzzled by volcanoes that erupt far from the edges of tectonic plates—known as intraplate volcanoes ...
Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 ...
A 30,000-year-old vulture feather from Central Italy was preserved down to the microscopic level by volcanic rock.
New research suggests that Earth’s orbital variations—the slow changes in its tilt, axial precession, and shape of its ...
Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight? Some ...