And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. With this exhilarating knowledge we had slept, or tried to, for five or six hours, wrapped in oversized ...

And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

And, perhaps by considering Earth after us, we can get a realistic understanding of all the ways we’ve shaped and changed the ...

Astronaut Kjell Lindgren spent close to five months on the International Space Station last year serving as a NASA flight engineer and mission specialist. He still remembers the first time he saw ...

That beyond the horizon lurked a bottomless void, measureless to humans ... horizon began returning triumphant from the other. The Earth was curved, a sphere with no edges. We didn't fall off ...

The Earth, like all the other planets in the solar system, started out its life as a disc of dust and gas orbiting the young sun. The dust particles were brought together by the forces of drag to form ...

Anything that dropped into the basin, it seemed, would fall till the end of time. Yet when scientists finally looked into the lake’s murky depths, they found not a void, but a mirror.

This proposes that the Moon formed during a collision between the Earth and another small planet, about the size of the planet Mars. The debris from this impact collected in an orbit around Earth to ...

Luckily, there’s more than one way to make a magnet, and it may soon be possible to build permanent magnets as strong as neodymium magnets, but without any rare earth metals. In fact ...