(The lichen in this photo is Cetraria aculeata.). | Credit: Pensoft Earth-based lifeforms known as lichens may be tough enough to survive on Mars, a new study suggests. Scientists came to this ...

Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in Earth's history, according to new research. The explosive supernova deaths of ...

A very strange marine life encounter caught on video ... Of the approximately 300 species of octopus scattered across every ocean on Earth, the vast majority of them live on the seafloor, with ...

The Somali plate is moving away from the Nubian plate, pulling apart the crust of the Earth. This activity will ultimately generate a new ocean basin as the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden submerges the ...

After the upper stage has released its cargo, it too falls back to Earth ... strange-looking manifestations in the sky. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching ...

“We have our finger,” said Robert Citron, the director of the center, “on the pulse of planet Earth ... one strange event at a time. Word of freak events like a mass squirrel migration ...

2024 was one of the wettest years on record, witnessing record-breaking extreme precipitation events across the globe, several of which were compound events. Extreme rainfalls were unprecedented ...