The island formed in early 2023, when a mud volcano in the Caspian Sea’s Kumani Bank, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) off the ...

Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate ...

Enigmatic planet Mercury posed for some closeups when the BepiColombo mission flew by. Craters, bright regions and volcanic ...

We are in store for an unusual celestial treat in January when six planets line up in the night sky across Texas.

“A May 1861 event resulted in an island just 87 meters (285 feet) across and 3.5 meters (11.5 feet) above the water. This one ...

Astronaut Don Pettit appeared on his social media to share a video showing what the Aurora Borealis looks like from space. O ...

This apocalyptic object, the Chicxulub impactor, slammed into the sea just off the coast of modern-day Mexico. From it, shock ...

The spacecraft themselves continued to operate normally in Earth orbit during the outage and "no science data has been lost." ...

Since New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto 10 years ago, experts have come to think of the dwarf planet as much more ...

The year easily beat out the previous record holder, 2023, for the warmest year on record globally, according to data ...

NASA's LEXI instrument is set to land on the moon's surface sometime this month. Using X-ray sensors, the device will watch ...