For one, scientists observe a "cosmic fossil" called the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The first light that was free to ...

"Our work supports both the scientific quest to answer the question 'Are we alone?' and practical efforts to manage the ...

The "unintentional electromagnetic leakage" from airport radars and military radar systems can be "detectable across ...

Differences in the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Moon will make July 9, July 22 and August 5 unusually short.

New research suggests Earth may lie inside a massive, billion-light-year-wide cosmic void, offering a possible solution to ...

As glaciers melt around the world, long-dormant volcanoes may be waking up beneath the ice. New research reveals that massive ...

While that tiny time difference is imperceptible to humans, it represents part of a broader pattern that has left scientists ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

Alien: Earth, the upcoming FX TV series, is highly anticipated and was also inspired by a children's fairy tale.

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...