Researchers discovered a new field of ancient tektites in South Australia, revealing a long-forgotten asteroid impact. These ...

Natural glass fragments scattered across South Australia are now pointing out a giant asteroid impact that took place around ...

Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental ...

A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...

How can timing influence planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical ...

Strange glass strewn across southern Australia appears to be from a mystery asteroid impact 11 million years ago.

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

The mountain range has been sitting under the ice sheet for eons following a massive tectonic plate clash.

The case for a newborn ocean on Saturn's moon Mimas continues to build.

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly ...

Mystics often attribute this orange color to 'Blood Moon,' or total lunar eclipse. But as it turns out, it is just simple ...

Brian Lacki has released a set of three prepublication studies attempting to rationalize and measure the odds of a ...