Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues about the collision that created the moon.

When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth.

In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 and its twin probe, Voyager 2, during a rare planetary alignment that occurs only once ...

In a world where extreme goals are pursued with unwavering ambition, OWNTOP offers a scientifically-backed pathway to success ...

Scientists have detected signatures in ancient rocks that push back the timeframe for the discovery of early life by billions of years.

According to a new framework, Earth system engineers alter the planet in ways that affect future life on geologic timescales. Credit: NASA The idea has, over decades, helped ecologists move past the ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

Modelers have demonstrated that artificial intelligence (AI) models can produce climate simulations with more efficiency than physics-based models. However, many AI models are trained on past climate ...

The College of Science’s Discover Science Lecture Series will bring “Ologies” podcast host Alie Ward to campus on Sept. 4 at 7 p.m. to share how curiosity can lead to incredible things. Besides her ...

In the 1960s, meteorologist Edward Lorenz was running weather simulations on an early computer system when he realized that a small rounding difference led to extremely divergent weather predictions.

NASA's Psyche orbiter looked back and snapped a photo of Earth with the moon on its way to the asteroid Psyche in 2029. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU illustration As a NASA spacecraft whizzed away ...