Category science

Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet’s interior. But when did this process begin?

When the ‘God of chaos’ asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet’s gravity may trigger tremors and landslides that totally change the asteroid’s surface.

A 6-mile-think shell of methane ice on Saturn’s moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon’s vast subsurface ocean.

NASA’s Perseverance rover found strange green spots in Martian rock, potentially indicating a past interaction with liquid water.

An excavation at a Roman fortress in the country of Georgia has revealed a gold offering to a god of war, a colorful mosaic and other artifacts.

We take our timekeeping rules for granted, but the history of these rules is long and complex.

At an Iron Age cemetery in Sweden, archaeologists discovered an unusual grave of a woman interred with an iron folding knife stuck into her burial.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spiral galaxy under the “ram pressure” inside a massive cluster of galaxies.

The Vikings’ reputation for bloodlust compared to other medieval fighters may have been exaggerated over the years.

On a young Earth, giant meteors might have been a harbinger of life, not death.