Scientists have long known that Earth's core is mostly made of iron, but the density is not high enough for it to be pure ...

What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km before ...

In A Nutshell Two massive hot regions deep beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean have been influencing Earth’s protective ...

Four enormous stone hunting traps have been discovered that could be the oldest ever found in prehistoric Europe.

Remains of the legendary Lighthouse of Alexandria resurface from the Mediterranean after 1,600 years, revealing clues to the ...

Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that ...

This 3D virtual aerial tour explores Oceanografic from above revealing its fluid architectural forms set within the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia. From this elevated viewpoint the curved white ...

New satellite launched by ESA uses Infrared Sounder instrument to form the most detailed map of Earth's atmosphere.

A 307-million-year-old fossil reveals that some of Earth’s earliest land animals were already experimenting with a ...

Sensors monitoring Aberdeen’s geothermal heating potential are being installed underground throughout the city. The 100 sensors, or seismic nodes, are being placed across a mixture of public and ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

How do you lay out a space station to accommodate life in zero gravity? That's one of the challenges facing Teague, a century-old design firm.