Learn more about how complex life on Earth likely wouldn’t have been possible without volcanic activity.

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Learn how this midge has a unique strategy for surviving what most organisms couldn’t.

Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...

A graduate of UW-Whitewater, Monica Cull wrote for several organizations, including one that focused on bees and the natural world, before coming to Discover Magazine. Her current work also appears on ...

Saturn’s axis is, according to NASA, tilted by 26.7 degrees with respect to its orbit around the sun – and Forbes suggests ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

The discovery bolsters the theory that meteorite impacts played an important role in Earth's early geological history ...

This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...