Learn about the closest black hole from Earth, Gaia BH1. This recently discovered black hole is dormant, but it’s only 1,600 ...

Learn how the fossils of ancient organisms help scientists navigate deep time — and uncover Earth’s hidden history.

Is a sun a star or a planet? While science now agrees the sun is a star, new telescopes may soon challenge how we define ...

Learn more about Wadisuchus kassabi, the crocodile’s ancient cousin that thrived in prehistoric oceans and rewrites this ...

Learn how many suns exist in the Milky Way and how to understand how many sun-like stars are out there could help us understand how many Earth-like planets there are, too.

Learn about the new deep-sea species discovered in the Southern Ocean, including a "death-ball" sponge that uses a deadly ...

Learn how rainy and cold weather may be linked with joint pain, impacting those with arthritis or other musculoskeletal ...

In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ancient rocks from Greenland, Canada and Hawaii.

New research reveals that Earth’s so-called “Boring Billion” was a time of dramatic change beneath the surface.