While Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System, on average it spends more time closer to Earth than Venus does.

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at a cleaner way to make ammonia, the brightest young scientists in North ...

Scientists have finally confirmed a powerful coronal mass ejection from another star, using LOFAR radio data paired with ...

On Monday, Duncan Watson-Parris closed his welcoming remarks on the first meeting of the GAIA Initiative with an inviting ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed everything—reshaping Earth, forming the Moon, and scattering clues across ...

The nature documentary series uses new research and photorealistic CGI to bring the huge, bizarre animals of the Ice Age back ...

Einstein explained that gravity affects each passing second. Clocks slow down where gravity grows stronger. Clocks speed up ...

Beginning about 4.5 billion years ago, the theory goes, a galactic cloud of interstellar gas and dust collapsed and ignited in a blaze of thermonuclear fusion to create our Sun. Swirling around that ...

Scientists mapped ancient Martian rivers and drainage basins, revealing past water flows and habitable environments of Mars’s climate and geological history.

Something incredibly strange is happening. A mysterious gravitation disturbance is altering our Solar System. Jupiter is now ...

In recent years, a new danger has emerged in the Darién Gap. This lawless stretch of ungovernable jungle has become a hive of ...