Few other scientific drilling ships exist – and none of this caliber. There is Japan’s Chikyū with a maximum drilling depth of 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) and there was the US-owned JOIDES Resolution ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Researchers in Western Australia have found the remnants of a nearly 3.5-billion-year-old impact crater – making it the oldest worldwide. This groundbreaking discovery sheds new light on Earth's early ...

For decades, scientists believed that lead-208, a "doubly magic" and highly stable atomic nucleus, was perfectly spherical.

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater in Western ...

In 2021, a team led by Dr Gary Kinsland of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette found evidence that the impact and resulting tsunami left "megaripples" of sediment 16 meters (53 feet) high and 600 ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

Despite having been studied from every possible point of view and angle, the Earth will remain a mystery to most people. Studies of its structure are incomplete, especially after t ...

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have been stranded on the International Space Station for over nine months ...

SpaceX did not immediately announce a new launch date, but noted the next try could be as early as Thursday night.

The four set to depart are NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and Russian ...

Geophysics plays important roles in comprehending both the shallow and deep architecture based on variations in subsurface physical properties beneath the ...