Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that ...

A cheeseburger experiment turns into a surprisingly dramatic test of what makes melted cheese smooth, thick, and pourable.

EVEN more flights have been cancelled to and from a popular European holiday destination – which has seen hundreds of people ...

Western Australia’s Pilbara Craton is probably the last place you’d expect to learn anything about the role water played in ...

Geologists studying some of the planet's oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major ...

In May 2018, the island of Mayotte, between Madagascar and Mozambique, began to experience a series of earthquakes that led ...

A strange "chirping" signal from a distant supernova has revealed the birth of a magnetar, confirming that these incredibly magnetic neutron stars can power the universe's brightest stellar explosions ...

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Satellites have detected an underwater eruption in the Bismarck Sea, potentially forming a new island. The event offers a ...

An underwater volcano erupting quietly beneath the Bismarck Sea, just north of Papua New Guinea, could soon push a brand new ...

Earth was once covered by a global magma ocean, which later cooled and crystallised – now traces of this primordial event ...

From friendship in a world of chatbots to what it means to be alive, this month’s new popular science books are asking some ...