Our 24-hour day measures Earth’s rotation relative to the Sun, known as a solar day. This is slightly longer than Earth’s ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

REEs such as niobium, tantalum and ytterbium have been discovered in igneous rock layers – similar to the discovery (and ...

These include critical raw materials – resources such as lithium and rare earth elements (REEs) that are essential for green ...

These universal truths form the shared foundation upon which a great deal of rigorous and robust merit-based inquiry is ...

Dinosaur eggshells, once treated as background scenery in fossil digs, have turned out to be some of the most precise ...

A silent traveler has recently made its presence known in the dark velvet of our solar system. This has sparked a debate that ...

Located just about 30 miles east of Colorado Springs in El Paso County, this geological wonderland somehow remains one of the ...

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar ...

But Greenland’s ice-free area, which is nearly double the size of the UK, forms less than a fifth of the island’s total ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

Archaeologists date cloth with layers, dye residues, and radiocarbon dating. This method measures carbon-14 decay to estimate ...