A grazing giant collision between two similar-sized rocky bodies likely created Mercury a few billion years ago.
An unexpected phenomenon called convection could help explain many of the volcanoes and other features of the Venusian landscape.
Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in Earth's mantle may be the reason why.
The damage climate change will inflict on the world’s economy is likely to have been massively underestimated.
"Half ice, half fire" is notable not only because it has never been observed before, but also because it is able to drive extremely sharp switching between phases in the material at a reasonable, finite temperature.
Once again, Mars has presented us with an example of something it seems to have in abundance: extremely peculiar and baffling rocks.
A team of international researchers has used the unpredictable nature of quantum mechanics to create a device capable of generating truly random numbers.
The Lyman-apha light from JADES-GS-z13-1 has taken nearly 13.47 billion years to reach us, as it dates back to just 330 million years after the Big Bang.
Fear of space has grown alongside space programs. Worries about asteroid strikes and over-militarization lean into deeper fears about space as the unknown.
NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, stretching out between South America and southwest Africa.
The main reason for space exploration is to search for life beyond Earth.
An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) discovered a surprising new filamentary structure around the Mikly Way's core.
Nearly a third of fungi species assessed by international conservation experts were found to be at risk of extinction from threats like agriculture, deforestation and urban sprawl.
Chewing gum polymers, both natural and synthetic, can release microparticles when they are worn down by chewing.
For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured bright auroral activity on Neptune.
