EU researchers are braving extreme Arctic conditions to shed light on snow's crucial role in Earth's climate system.

Researchers find obelisks, mysterious RNA molecules in human bacteria that challenge our understanding of viruses and ...

The winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. According to the National Weather Service (NWS), it occurs when the sun is directly over the Tropic of Capricorn, ...

Many of the fluctuations in the length of Earth's day have known causes. But on scales of decades to millennia, scientists ...

Which microbes thrive below us in darkness -- in gold mines, in aquifers, in deep boreholes in the seafloor -- and how do they compare to the microbiomes that envelop the Earth's surfaces, on land and ...

The winter solstice is Saturday, bringing the shortest day and longest night of the year to the Northern Hemisphere — ideal ...

The discovery of a newly identified species — the oldest saber-toothed animal found and an ancient cousin to mammals — fills ...

Early interactions with the Earth may have heated up the Moon and caused it to remelt, producing new lunar rocks and erasing ...

As it orbits Earth, the moon will show different illuminated parts based on the angle to the sun and hence the phases of a lunation. Although these lighting variations are gradual, traditionally ...

City of Joburg’s Emergency Management Services (EMS) says no injuries and damages were reported from the earth tremor recorded on Tuesday night. Spokesperson for the Joburg EMS, Robert Mulaudzi ...