The Milesian School was based in Miletus and produced three great thinkers who were the pioneers of philosophy in ancient ...

A few politicians are making news for accepting a once-fringe conspiracy theory that the Earth is flat. Voters aren't embracing it − yet.

Dubbed Teleios, the unusually symmetrical space object is puzzling astronomers with its near-perfect shape and mysterious ...

Samples from Hawaii seem to contain material that passed across the boundary between the planet’s core and its mantle, nearly ...

A new study predicts Earth will lose its oxygen in a billion years. Toho University researchers used NASA models for this finding. The sun's aging will cause water evaporation and temperature rise.

It isn’t easy to figure out how the Earth was built, because it happened 4½ billion years ago, and no one was there to watch. So scientists have had to look at what the Earth looks like now and ...

Much of the spacecraft came tumbling back to Earth within a decade of the failed launch. No longer able to resist gravity’s tug as its orbit dwindled, the spherical lander — an estimated 3 ...

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

Just weeks ago, scientists warned that a "city killer" asteroid had a small chance of hitting Earth. While that prediction ... landing capsule itself — a spherical object about 3 feet in ...

In collaboration with researchers from Toho University in Japan, NASA researchers have used supercomputers to model and determine how long life will remain possible on Earth. The calculated end ...