Scientists have uncovered the oldest direct evidence yet that Earth’s tectonic plates were on the move 3.5 billion years ago. By analyzing magnetic fingerprints in ancient rocks, they reconstructed ...

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s ...

The existentially lonely astronaut is by now a science-fiction archetype; in fact, this movie’s star, Ryan Gosling, has already played one in Damien Chazelle’s 2018 Neil Armstrong biopic First Man. So ...

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When the Stanford biologist and science writer Paul Ehrlich died last week at 93, the obituaries that followed were a fascinating exercise in editorial balance. As usual, most hesitated to speak too ...

A bizarre, ultra-light planet is cloaked in such a thick haze that even JWST can’t reveal its composition. Its unusual size and orbit are forcing scientists to rethink how planets form.

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

"These ultra-low density planets are rare and they defy conventional understanding of how gas giants form, and if explaining ...

Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its start back by 140 million years.

L 98-59 d shouldn’t exist. At least, not according to the rules in our old textbooks. Located just 35 light-years away, this ...

Star Wars had been released in theaters and changed everything about the way Hollywood perceived the genre, and television executives wanted in on that cash-grab just as much as movie executives. In ...

As a professional science communicator who works a lot with space at this age group, I am disappointed," said Dr. Mark Gallaway.