Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting ...

Northwest Louisiana recently experienced a significant earthquake, but just how commons are earthquakes? Movement along ...

Astronomers have caught what may be a rare cosmic catastrophe unfolding 11,000 light-years away. A seemingly ordinary sun-like star suddenly began flickering wildly, puzzling scientists until they ...

Planetary scientists have produced the first global map of small mare ridges on the Moon, adding new evidence that the lunar surface has been reshaped in geologically recent times by tectonic forces ...

A much smaller earthquake rattled Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County Tuesday morning. The magnitude-2.3 quake occurred at approximately 9:17 a.m. on March 10, 2026, at a depth of roughly 7.4 ...

Antarctica is covered by a miles-thick ice sheet, but was that always the case? And when was the coldest continent ice-free?

A long-running debate about the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea has finally been resolved. Scientists now confirm it formed when a roughly 160-meter asteroid struck the seabed about 43–46 ...

One of Earth’s most active volcanoes, Kīlauea, has erupted again for the 43rd time in Hawai's Big Island. USGS reported the ...

Scientists studying Earth’s only natural satellite have discovered compelling evidence that the Moon is not a static world but is still slowly shrinking, with implications for future lunar ...

The Himalayas are often referred to as the Young Fold Mountains due to their relatively recent formation and ongoing geological activity. Formed by the collision of tectonic plates millions of years ...

Geological features like these provide evidence that Mars once had a denser atmosphere and significant surface water — ...