British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set ...

It takes 90 minutes for the International Space Station to orbit the Earth. That journey happens 16 times in Orbital, which ...

Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...

A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire planet.

The meeting just getting underway in Azerbaijan won't have the top leaders of the 13 largest carbon dioxide-polluting ...

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.

World leaders are converging Tuesday at the United Nations annual climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan although the big ...

This means the gravitational pull of the moon is at its strongest. During the fall months, whenever there is a new or full ...

The Martian new year arrives with the Red Planet’s vernal equinox. Explaining why requires a deep dive into celestial ...