A celestial moment will take place in August 2027, which will lead to a once-in-a-lifetime view of the skies in some parts of ...

Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an archaeologist who studies how past peoples interacted with their ...

Astronomical discovery: supersonic gales of 20,500 mph batter the exoplanet WASP-127b, breaking cosmic records for ...

Artifacts from the Iron Age have revealed an intense historical magnetic anomaly in the Middle East. Could using a similar ...

Over the past two billion years, this supercontinent cycle has produced at least three major supercontinents: Columbia, Rodinia, and Pangea. Each one formed as landmasses gradually collided, only to ...

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

The bold question-askers at What If map out how a 40,000 km highway around the equator could revolutionize global travel.

The poles can flip over the course of hundreds or thousands of years, and this can happen at random, with intervals ranging anywhere from 10,000 years to 50 million years or more. Around 41,000 years ...