The dazzling lights of the aurora are created when high-energy particles from space collide with Earth's atmosphere. While ...

Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That's what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in Earth sciences and seismology, she gets much of her data from a bird's-eye ...

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and ...

Science journalism is reporting on the symptoms of a disease whose origins lie in an economic model that’s at odds with the ...

The 12-year-old firm raised $360,360,360 for its fifth fund. And there's a reason for that number.

A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the ...

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

Climate experts highlighted rising nuclear noncooperation and climate change as contributing to the likelihood of human-caused catastrophe at a Georgetown University event Jan. 27.

There is a rigorous scientific process that scientists followed before setting the Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds this year.

"Interstellar navigation is a complex, systematic engineering task. Breakthroughs in a single discipline cannot support the ...