NEW YORK (AP) — The last supermoon of the year will shine soon in December skies.

Rocks that stood out as light-colored dots on the reddish-orange surface of Mars now are the latest evidence that areas of the small planet may have once supported wet oases with humid climates and ...

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

Ask someone on Earth for the time and they can give you an exact answer, thanks to our planet's intricate timekeeping system, ...

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

Chinese researchers have discovered that interstitial carbon in iron-carbon alloys behaves in a superionic, liquid-like state under Earth’s core pressure and temperature conditions. Beneath Earth’s ...

An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...

Reporting from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Ministerial Council for 2025, held in Bremen last week, IFLScience reveals how ESA is stepping up and doubling down on its commitment to monitoring our ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

To author Anjana Khatwa, rocks are “storykeepers of time.” She blends science and spirituality to explore the origin story of our world.