Three scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography will be honored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU ...

Life loves rivers. Here on Earth, large drainage basins cover nearly half of the land surface. On Mars, they cover only about ...

It takes a beam of light a single day to travel 16.1 billion miles, a distance known as a light-day. It'll take Voyager 1, the American spacecraft moving at 10.6 miles per second, more than 49 years ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Amateur astronomer Tom Lynch will make his presentation at the Massapequa Public Library, located at 40 Harbor Ln., on Dec. 16.

WINTER HOLIDAY CAMP: Registration is open for the Ogden Museum of Southern Arts’s winter break camp for grades 2-5, to be held 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Dec. 22, 23 and 26 at the museum, 925 Camp St. in New ...

Eight billion people. Almost three times as many as in 1960. And still we are told the real crisis is that there aren't enough of us.

Whatsapp The crisis is not declining births but rising high-consumption lifestyles; ecological limits are breached while ...

A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 ...

Carl Sagan famously said that "We're all made of star stuff." But he didn't elaborate on how that actually happened. Yes, ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...