Between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea became a basin of desolation, cut off from the global ocean during what is known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC). This period saw ...

Moving at roughly 20,505 miles per hour along the distant world's equator, it’s the fastest known jet stream that wraps around a planet ...

The vast majority of successful launches and landings of SpaceX rockets have been of the Falcon 9, though that has taken several forms as SpaceX iterated upon the original design.

Trump said that his administration has made "progress" in the Middle East, touting the ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas that came together just days before Trump took office. Trump ...

Marvel Comics' full April 2025 solicits and solicitations see the debut of Moon Dino and Devil Girl Explore Marvel's epic April 2025 releases, including Godzilla vs. Hulk and Spider-Man's thrilling ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

C.E.O.s, policymakers and billionaires at the World Economic Forum’s conference have long pledged to fight climate change. Has it done any good?

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

G3 (ATLAS) showed off its spectacular tail plumage to NASA spacecraft when it flew close to the sun this month.

At around 620 miles high, these subsurface “islands of rock” stand more than 100 times higher than Mount Everest’s summit of around 5.5 miles, ...

The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record depths into the lower ...