An illustration of a trout eating in a stream In the early hours of the geologic time clock, spanning millions of years, the earth was covered with a gaseous atmosphere and warm shallow seas ...

The "city killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth or the moon when it whizzes by in 2032, the latest James Webb Space ...

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 ...

127 years ago, a coffin fell from the sky. Scientists just solved a major piece of its mystery. More companies are ...

The Muscatine County Jail was promised a 75% increase in potential revenue for holding federal immigration detainees during the first year of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration, newly ...

NASA has announced that the asteroid known as 2024 YR4, a space rock roughly the size of a 20-story building, no longer poses a threat of crashing into the Moon during its close approach in 2032.

The bad news: The miss means scientists won't get a rare natural experiment to collect data on a large asteroid strike. Telescopes and spacecraft could have otherwise watched the impact flash and ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during ...

The oceans are the largest entity on Earth’s surface. All that blue, however, may be dwarfed by an immense reservoir of hydrogen concealed in the planet’s heart. Experiments indicate that enough ...

Picture all of Earth’s oceans, which cover about 70% of the planet and are mostly made of hydrogen. Now multiply that by nine. That may be the amount of hydrogen in Earth’s core, possibly making it ...

Dr. Klinger is the author of “Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes.” Over the past 15 years, it has often been said that China has a stranglehold on global supplies of ...