NS-31, Blue Origin's upcoming mission, will send an all-female crew to space. Since Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova ...

A mission will deliver rock and soil from Mars to laboratories on Earth in the 2030s. Mars Sample Return (MSR ... so there is ...

The opposing religious and world views of authors Frank Herbert and J.R.R. Tolkien are likely why Tolkien didn't like Dune.

Earth's oceans could one day turn purple. Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

Submissions already include some stunning wildlife photography, including a sleepy lion cub on a dirt road, a mountain goat ...

The changes in ocean chemistry were gradual. The Archaean period lasted 1.5 billion years. This is more than half of Earth’s ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

Green oceans on early Earth, shaped by iron, pushed microbes to evolve light-absorbing tools that worked in green light.

Soil and rocks returned from the moon's far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth ...

Imminent loss of NASA's Aura and Canada's SCISAT will severely diminish scientists’ ability to monitor ozone-depleting substances in the stratosphere.

It’s your new favorite source for the strangest science-adjacent facts ... the strange hums had spread via the Earth’s crust and reached all the way to the other end of the world in Antarctica.