New observations are helping scientists peer beneath the Sun’s surface, revealing where its magnetic activity may truly begin. Every 11 years, the Sun’s magnetic field reverses. As that cycle unfolds, ...

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured some of the most detailed images ever recorded of comets breaking apart in space, ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to capture the most detailed look yet at the atmosphere of Kepler-51d, a planet so lightweight it has been compared to cotton candy. The new data ...

A new study focuses on krypton gas in the hopes of understanding how ancient coastlines and landscapes change in Earth’s past ...

Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime produced by violent cosmic events, such as the merging of black holes. So far, ...

The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...