For years, scientists have treated the Moon as a relic — a silent witness to the Solar System’s ancient past, geologically quiet and mostly unchanged for billions of years. But that assumption is ...

Astronomers have discovered landslides on the Moon triggered by geological activity under the lunar surface. A team from ...

Just as passengers don’t feel the plane’s speed while smoothly cruising, we don’t feel Earth’s movement because we’re ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is managing the payload of instruments aboard NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and ...

Witness the first images of the September 2025 partial solar eclipse. The moon and sun put on a magnificent show on Sept. 21 ...

The White House is trying to divorce us from the sun's benefits, a policy that will cause widespread harm, writes Thom Krystofiak.

Have you seen the Northern Lights? They're more than just pretty colors; when you see them in Pittsburgh, there's science ...

I felt that awe again when I noticed the first hurricane lily of the season growing so close to a boulder along the dirt road of our neighborhood.

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

With advance warning, however, steps can be taken to reduce the risks. If an electrical grid is running near capacity, for ...

The miners use mercury to separate gold from sediment, then dump the sludge back into rivers, where it enters fish eaten by ...

Experiments on Earth indicate some common species of bacteria and fungi could survive for several days on the moon's surface, ...