Waste from old landfill sites is spilling onto beaches as rising seas erode coastlines - and some of it is toxic ...

The recent detection of a gas in a distant plant has been linked to life forms has sparked debate among scientists.

On Feb. 27, 1988, the first of my weekly columns on stargazing appeared in print. More than 1.5 million words later, I sit ...

A security camera near Thazi, Myanmar, captured the earth cracking during a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in March.

A 2021 satellite image shows destructive lava flows burning through a residential area in the Canary Islands as molten rock ...

A 2021 satellite image shows destructive lava flows burning through a residential area in the Canary Islands as molten rock ...

The idea of farming on Mars or the Moon has captured imaginations for decades, but the reality is far less romantic. While Martian soil contains essential nutrients, it lacks the biological life that ...

At the Berkeley Pit, researchers hope to extract valuable metals to increase U.S. production of rare earths used in electric ...

The ambitious plans have been put together as a joint effort by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the China National ...

One of the big ideas in physics is that forces change the motion of an object. If you apply a constant, continuous force to ...

Earlier this week American singer Katy Perry, best known for her bubblegum pop, said she felt like a "human Piñata" after ...

This photograph taken by an International Space Station astronaut shows a bright meteor from the Perseid meteor shower in Earth’s atmosphere. The brightest meteors are known as fireballs ...