Earth is our home planet, the only place in the universe where we know for certain that life exists. Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago from a swirli…

Breathe in … breathe out. Ahh. Hooray for oxygen, the element that keeps much of life on Earth humming. Element No. 8 on the Periodic Table of the Element…

In the summer , temperatures may increase to the hottest of the year. If they spike too high, heat waves or droughts may cause trouble for people, animals…

Climate change is any long-term alteration in average weather patterns, either globally or regionally. Climate change has occurred many times in Earth's h…

The most abundant element in the universe, hydrogen is also a promising source of "clean" fuel on Earth. Named after the Greek words hydro for "water" and…

Magnetism is a force of nature produced by moving electric charges. Sometimes these motions are microscopic and inside of a material known as magnets. Mag…

A picture of a buoy anchored near a remote webcam at the North Pole shows a meltwater lake surrounding the camera on July 22. (Image credit: North Pole En…

Global warming is the rise in average temperatures across the globe, which has been ongoing at least since record keeping began in 1880. Here are the bare…

While gravity's effects can clearly be seen on the scale of things like planets, stars and galaxies, the force of gravity between everyday objects is extr…

Atoms are the basic units of matter. Everything in the universe apart from energy is made of matter therefore atoms make up everything in the universe, ac…

Electromagnetic radiation is a type of energy that is all around us and takes many forms, such as radio waves, microwaves, X-rays and gamma-rays. Sunlight…

While other planets in Earth's solar system are either scorching hot or bitterly cold, Earth's surface has relatively mild, stable temperatures. Earth enj…

Here on Earth, we take gravity so for granted that it took an apple falling from a tree to trigger Isaac Newton's theory of gravitation. But gravity, whic…

The origin of life on Earth began more than 3 billion years ago, evolving from the most basic of microbes into a dazzling array of complexity over time. B…

Nab massive savings on a subscription to How It Works magazine this holiday season. (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) (opens in new…

From the deepest ocean trench to the tallest mountain, plate tectonics explains the features and movement of Earth's surface in the present and the past. …

An artist's conception of the new axial Higgs particle emerging as a consequence of the axial Higgs field. (Image credit: Nature) Researchers have discove…

Lego Figures: No More Mr. Nice Toy Lego figures have angry scowls more than smiles today, unlike in years past.(Image credit: YouTube screen grab from Le…

A 90-year-old woman (who will turn 91 next week) became the first in the world to be given Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine outside of clinical trials, accord…

Quantum mechanics is a subfield of physics that describes the behavior of particles — atoms , electrons, photons and almost everything in the molecular an…

What do the dinosaurs, the dodo bird and the Tasmanian tiger all have in common? They're all extinct. Countless species have come and gone in the history …

Buried inside data that NASA's iconic Voyager 2 spacecraft gathered at Uranus more than 30 years ago is the signature of a massive bubble that may have st…

Love them or hate them, drones are here to stay — at least for the foreseeable future. A new report detailing the growth of the drone industry finds that …

Artist’s impression of a 6-mile-wide asteroid striking the Earth. Scientists now have fresh evidence that such a cosmic impact ended the age of dinosaurs …

When playing with their toddlers, fathers are more assertive while mothers are more compliant, a new study found. These differences could help ingrain gen…

Earth gets alien visitors all the time, in the form of space debris that makes it through our atmosphere. The terms can be confusing, so here's a glossery…

The lack of diverse playable characters in video games could make a serious impression among gamers and the broader U.S. population. A 2008 study by the P…

Major Discovery! 7 Earth-Size Alien Planets Circle Nearby Star Astronomers have never seen anything like this before: Seven Earth-size alien worlds orbit…

The roughly 3,500-year-old bone ice skates found in Xinjiang are almost exactly like prehistoric ice skates found in northern Europe.(Image credit: Xinji…

An illustration of the rocky, Earth-like planet TRAPPIST 1-b, with its small red sun blazing in the distance.(Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Olmsted (S…

Earth is our home planet, the only place in the universe where we know for certain that life exists. Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago from a swirli…

Breathe in … breathe out. Ahh. Hooray for oxygen, the element that keeps much of life on Earth humming. Element No. 8 on the Periodic Table of the Element…

In the summer , temperatures may increase to the hottest of the year. If they spike too high, heat waves or droughts may cause trouble for people, animals…

Climate change is any long-term alteration in average weather patterns, either globally or regionally. Climate change has occurred many times in Earth's h…

The most abundant element in the universe, hydrogen is also a promising source of "clean" fuel on Earth. Named after the Greek words hydro for "water" and…

Magnetism is a force of nature produced by moving electric charges. Sometimes these motions are microscopic and inside of a material known as magnets. Mag…

A picture of a buoy anchored near a remote webcam at the North Pole shows a meltwater lake surrounding the camera on July 22. (Image credit: North Pole En…

Global warming is the rise in average temperatures across the globe, which has been ongoing at least since record keeping began in 1880. Here are the bare…

While gravity's effects can clearly be seen on the scale of things like planets, stars and galaxies, the force of gravity between everyday objects is extr…

Atoms are the basic units of matter. Everything in the universe apart from energy is made of matter therefore atoms make up everything in the universe, ac…

Electromagnetic radiation is a type of energy that is all around us and takes many forms, such as radio waves, microwaves, X-rays and gamma-rays. Sunlight…

While other planets in Earth's solar system are either scorching hot or bitterly cold, Earth's surface has relatively mild, stable temperatures. Earth enj…

Here on Earth, we take gravity so for granted that it took an apple falling from a tree to trigger Isaac Newton's theory of gravitation. But gravity, whic…

The origin of life on Earth began more than 3 billion years ago, evolving from the most basic of microbes into a dazzling array of complexity over time. B…

Nab massive savings on a subscription to How It Works magazine this holiday season. (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) (opens in new…

From the deepest ocean trench to the tallest mountain, plate tectonics explains the features and movement of Earth's surface in the present and the past. …

An artist's conception of the new axial Higgs particle emerging as a consequence of the axial Higgs field. (Image credit: Nature) Researchers have discove…

Lego Figures: No More Mr. Nice Toy Lego figures have angry scowls more than smiles today, unlike in years past.(Image credit: YouTube screen grab from Le…

A 90-year-old woman (who will turn 91 next week) became the first in the world to be given Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine outside of clinical trials, accord…

Quantum mechanics is a subfield of physics that describes the behavior of particles — atoms , electrons, photons and almost everything in the molecular an…

What do the dinosaurs, the dodo bird and the Tasmanian tiger all have in common? They're all extinct. Countless species have come and gone in the history …

Buried inside data that NASA's iconic Voyager 2 spacecraft gathered at Uranus more than 30 years ago is the signature of a massive bubble that may have st…

Love them or hate them, drones are here to stay — at least for the foreseeable future. A new report detailing the growth of the drone industry finds that …

Artist’s impression of a 6-mile-wide asteroid striking the Earth. Scientists now have fresh evidence that such a cosmic impact ended the age of dinosaurs …

When playing with their toddlers, fathers are more assertive while mothers are more compliant, a new study found. These differences could help ingrain gen…

Earth gets alien visitors all the time, in the form of space debris that makes it through our atmosphere. The terms can be confusing, so here's a glossery…

The lack of diverse playable characters in video games could make a serious impression among gamers and the broader U.S. population. A 2008 study by the P…

Major Discovery! 7 Earth-Size Alien Planets Circle Nearby Star Astronomers have never seen anything like this before: Seven Earth-size alien worlds orbit…

The roughly 3,500-year-old bone ice skates found in Xinjiang are almost exactly like prehistoric ice skates found in northern Europe.(Image credit: Xinji…

An illustration of the rocky, Earth-like planet TRAPPIST 1-b, with its small red sun blazing in the distance.(Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Olmsted (S…