Across a Swiss meadow and into its forested edges, the drone dragged a jumbo-size cotton swab from a 13-foot tether. Along ...

If you’re wondering why we haven’t met aliens, it might be because habitable zone planets just don’t get smashed almost to ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

Coronal mass ejections from the Sun can trigger geomagnetic storms on Earth, and scientists are trying to figure out how this might effect the human body.

“Thanks to our results, we know that the proto-Earth was initially a dry rocky planet,” says Kruttasch. “It can therefore be ...

At 77, the Booker Prize-winning British novelist Ian McEwan shows no signs of slowing down. His new novel, What We Can Know, ...

A new model uncovers how Earth’s liquid core has sustained its magnetic field since the planet’s beginnings, offering new ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation ...