For the first time in over a year, lava is flowing inside the summit caldera of Kīlauea.

Understand how observations using some new imaging techniques may change the way we think about how planets are formed.

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Fossilized plant remains discovered near a Utah ghost town have stumped scientists, who are unable to link them to any modern ...

Movement within the Earth’s molten core that shifts mass on the planet. Ocean circulation and pressure on the seabed that pulls on the Earth’s axis. The “Chandler Wobble” – a natural shi ...

Hans Zimmer shares the tracks that inspired him and his team to create the incredible, original soundtrack for BBC One's Planet Earth II. Would you have what it takes to capture the incredible ...

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This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... made about planet-ness have turned out to be wrong. The very first exoplanet found—51 Pegasi b, discovered in ...

Entities like obelisks add color to these debates, leaving scientists wondering how ancient these forms might be and how they took shape during the planet’s biological history. Obelisks do not slide ...

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.