The phenomenon of the "Great Dissonance", where about a billion years are missing from the Earth's rocks, may finally be ...

A team of geophysicists has traced the origins of Earth’s most extreme gravitational anomaly, a vast depression beneath Antarctica where the pull of gravity is measurably weaker than anywhere else on ...

Asteroid hit North Sea: A long-standing scientific debate has finally been resolved: the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea was formed by a massive asteroid impact around 43–46 million years ago.

New research shows that the earliest sponges were soft bodied and lacked skeletons, explaining why their oldest fossils are ...

For years, scientists have puzzled over why Earth and Mars are missing certain key elements. Now, a fresh study suggests these ingredients weren’t missing from the start. Instead, they were likely ...

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. -- Surrounding our solar system is a natural and enigmatic barrier called the heliosphere — and a new mission is underway to help astronomers better understand it. A SpaceX Falcon ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A new NASA mission is set to launch that will study the effects of Earth’s magnetic field on us. NASA and SpaceX are set to launch the TRACERS mission from California later this month ...

From waterfalls that seem to disappear into nowhere to blood-colored water, these places are shrouded in mystery-even if science can explain most of them.