Our planet's air during the preindustrial period was not quite as pristine as you might think, according to new research out...
Comets and asteroids are both types of rocks that hang out in space, but their differences are pretty pronounced.
Depression can be a frighteningly relentless condition. Luckily, researchers around the world are constantly working on new treatment...
Our Solar System, with just one star in the sky, may be a bit of an oddball. Most of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy...
For all our current proficiency at studying the cosmos, there are some basic things that are still extremely difficult to do.
Not all ants are hard workers. Some in the colony slave away only so others can avoid pulling their weight.
For the vast majority of animals on Earth, breath is synonymous with life. Yet for the first 2 billion years of our planet's...
A fossilized trilobite first studied by an amateur paleontologist half a century ago has provided researchers with a whole new...
Scientists just solved a 50-year-old geological puzzle: the mystery of ancient animal traces dating back to an era before animals...
Earth is getting dimmer, researchers have found, and climate change is likely to blame. As the oceans get hotter, they appear...