As much as 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen may be in Earth’s core, scientists reported, suggesting most of Earth’s water was acquired during the planet’s formation.

A sealed Soviet chamber, sleepless prisoners, rising screams and sudden silence fuelled a chilling internet legend that still ...

Tiny, invisible gases long thought to be irrelevant in cloud formation may actually play a major role in determining whether ...

Research findings are available online in the Astrophysical Journal. The original story “ Student made cosmic dust in the lab ...

A city council committee heard from dozens of residents Tuesday about a possible ban on the sale of synthetic drugs in Kansas City, Missouri.

With its plans to revoke the endangerment finding, the administration is gambling that the Supreme Court will allow it to ...

A pair of new studies suggest that key steps toward life’s chemistry may begin long before planets exist. Experiments simulating interstellar space show that simple amino acids can link into peptides, ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WABE, Atlanta’s NPR station. As more and more data centers crop up throughout Georgia and the Southeast, a recent study finds ...

Jupiter, long treated as the solar system’s fixed point of planetary normalcy, has just been knocked off that pedestal. New measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft show the gas giant is slightly ...

DEAL MAKERS — Of course there won’t be a spring election — and that’s because avoiding one has become a full-time sport in the fishbowl. PM CARNEY mostly ruled out a trip to the polls the other day … ...