Latest articles by Stephanie Pappas
The lost continent of Zealandia underwent changes as subduction began around the western Pacific.
Taal volcano in the Philippines rumbled to life on Jan. 12, sending steam and sulfur skyward. Satellites have captured images of the eruption.
Earth's magnetic north is wandering from the Canadian Arctic toward Siberia, and it just crossed the Prime Meridian.
A flat Earth would inhabit an entirely different physical reality than the one we know.
New calculations suggest that some black holes can grow hair, but they can't keep it for long. Alas, they go bald again.
A new model of the whole Earth shows how the mantle and crust drive the movement of tectonic plates as well as the creation and destruction of supercontinents.
Lighthouse bursts of gamma rays emanate from one of the fastest-spinning stars in the galaxy.
The full moon of September 2019 is poised to provide some eerie atmosphere.
It was only a matter of time: Amateur sleuths think they've tracked down the satellite that took a high-resolution image of the aftermath of an Iranian missile disaster.
The first-ever artificial intelligence simulation of the universe seems to work like the real thing — and is almost as mysterious.
A massive refinery explosion in Philadelphia was so hot and expansive that it was visible on weather satellites, according to the National Weather Service.
The Large Hadron Collider should be able to detect these rare particles — if they exist.
A NASA photographer captured a lush aerial shot of an ephemeral wildflower bloom in the desert.
The new wing could make for lighter, more efficient airplanes.
Researchers now know what's going on inside mysterious particles called pentaquarks.
An asymmetry between matter and antimatter has been observed in the charm quark.
An astrolabe found at a shipwreck site in Oman is the oldest one ever discovered.
Nebraska's rivers swell after a "bomb cyclone" hits the central U.S.
The supermassive black holes were birthed during the universe's infancy.
The early Earth's worldwide sea of magma may have been shaped by the young planet's rapid spin.
An ancient supercontinent turned inside out as the Earth swallowed its own ocean some 700 million years ago, new research suggests.
