For most of the 20th century, physicists largely ignored living systems. They understood living things as machines, albeit ones made of gooey parts. A subfield called biophysics uncovered specific ...

In the vast, inky blackness beyond our solar system, objects are hurtling through space, each carrying secrets from another star. When one of these interstellar travellers, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, was first ...

One of the oldest unsolved riddles in planetary science concerns the origin of the moon. Over a century ago, George Darwin ...

The new dataset, published in Earth System Science Data by 16 scientists, shows a significantly cooler Earth from the late ...

The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.

A "House of Cards" is a wonderful English phrase that it seems is now primarily associated with a Netflix political drama.

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have formed on our planet eons ago. But not everyone ...

The rings of Saturn are normally thought to be flat, but measurements by the Cassini spacecraft show that some of their ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

The seventh edition of the Global Outlook (GEO-7) offers a stark vision of the decades to come. But its authors say the worst ...

"This work shows without a doubt that Parker Solar Probe is diving deep with every orbit into the region where the solar wind is born." ...