Earth’s magnetic shield is shifting in dramatic ways. New data from ESA’s Swarm satellites show that the South Atlantic Anomaly — a vast weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field — has grown by nearly half ...

Scientists using the ALMA telescope have created the most-detailed-ever map of the Milky Way's chaotic center. The ...

Here are 15 questions that sound embarrassingly easy but trip up most people who try them. Most people say China or the ...

In 250 million years, Earth’s continents may merge into a supercontinent so extreme that most mammals would struggle to survive.

New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

This interactive timeline of the war in Ukraine shows major attacks, key moments and how the battle lines have shifted in the four years since Russia's all-out invasion.

If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of ...

Aspergillus fungus thrives because its genome bends easily to new pressures. It lives on soil, grains, animal feathers, even ...

Biodiversity is changing across the planet, yet governments still lack the robust, consistent data needed to track these ...

On February 19, 2025, a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster fell back toward Earth, its fiery descent slicing across Europe's night sky.

A 4,000-year-old stone slab, first discovered over a century ago in France, may be the oldest known map in Europe, according to a new study.

For an application that's often considered an underdog in the navigation software wars, Magic Earth certainly gets a lot of updates. The most recent release includes a feature Google Maps users have ...