The Shenzhou XXI crew — mission commander Senior Colonel Zhang Lu (center), spaceflight engineer Major Wu Fei (right) and ...

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) holds a memorandum of understanding on the establishment and ...

If Earth were ejected from the Solar System — by a passing star or planetary collision — daylight would vanish in days. The planet would plunge into eternal night, its oceans freezing solid while ...

A major new report warns that humanity is approaching irreversible climate tipping points, including the loss of coral reefs and potential collapse of polar ice sheets. Credit: Shutterstock The 2025 ...

A controversial new scientific paper has sent shockwaves through the academic community by suggesting that life on Earth may not have emerged through natural processes alone, but could instead be the ...

Join us for a series of lectures and receptions this fall to highlight and celebrate the scholarship of three John and Patricia Cochran Scholar awardees. The Cochrans established these awards to help ...

For thousands of years, Earth operated within a stable, forgiving range of conditions that allowed human civilizations to flourish. That stability might soon be a thing of the past. A new scientific ...

A team of geophysicists say that an enormous mass shifted deep beneath the Earth’s surface 18 years ago. As detailed in a paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters last month, a team ...

On September 5, 2020, California's Creek Fire grew so severe that it began producing its own weather system. The fire's extreme heat produced an explosive thunderhead that spewed lightning strikes and ...

If our planet flips and no one’s around to hear it, does it still make a sound? Scientists have managed to put a chilling soundtrack to the flipping of Earth’s magnetic field — and the result is ...

A developing pyrocumulonimbus cloud above Oregon's Gulch Fire, part of the Beaver Complex Fire, in 2014. On September 5, 2020, California’s Creek Fire grew so severe that it began producing it’s own ...