This striking false-color satellite image shows masses of organic material swirling along the Polish coastline. When the photo was taken, the composition of these giant swirls was unknown, but ...

Roughly twenty miles above Earth's surface, in a largely invisible layer of the atmosphere called the stratosphere, some of ...

University of Southern California scientists have proven that the Earth's inner core is backtracking—slowing down—in relation to the planet's surface, as shown in new research published in Nature.

How did life begin? An international team of researchers from Japan, Malaysia, the UK, and Germany suggest that the answer ...

Astronomers have achieved the highest resolution ever obtained from the surface of Earth. They managed this feat by detecting light from distant galaxies at a frequency of around 345 GHz, equivalent ...

Climate change is altering the Earth to its literal core, new research suggests. As polar and glacial ice melts because of global warming, water that was once concentrated at the top and the bottom of ...

Something strange is happening at Earth’s center. Decades of earthquake data show that Earth’s inner core has been rotating slower than its mantle and surface since around 2010, researchers report ...

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Throughout any given year, the National Academies convene hundreds of conferences, workshops, symposia, forums, roundtables, and other gatherings that attract the finest minds in academia and the ...

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station has shared a striking photo of what is known as a Transient Luminous Event seen above a thunderstorm over Mexico and the Desert Southwest earlier in ...

A coronal mass ejection could knock out power and disrupt communication on Earth Dan Falk - Science Correspondent A coronal mass ejection erupts from the sun in 2013. NASA In August of 1859, ...