Hidden barrier found 400 miles inside Venus that blocks rising hot rock and creates ring-shaped volcanic features called ...

Harrat Khaybar is likened to the “gates of hell” for a reason. The volcanic field, one of the largest in Saudi Arabia, ...

The new Prow Knob island in southeastern Alaska finally separated from a receding glacier after a decades-long break-up. We wish they stayed together.

Buried deep in Greenland's ice sheet lies a puzzling chemical signature that has sparked intense scientific debate. A sharp ...

In a science lab on the fourth floor of UTSA's Multidisciplinary Studies Building, UTSA students engage in meticulous ...

Mars may have released sulfur gases that trapped heat, shaped the climate, and created conditions for ancient life.

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events ...

A wild new theory has claimed the origins of life on Earth were delivered by aliens who were terraforming the planet into a habitable world billions of years ago. Robert Endres, a scientist from ...

It’s one of the most longstanding questions in biology: how did life first arise? Research on the topic abounds, but there’s no one accepted answer. And according to one new paper, the chances that ...

The Earth’s shaped by the relentless forces of plate tectonics over millions of years. Because of these movements formed the majestic mountain range we know today as the Himalayas. Did you know that ...