Vikings did not use maps, sextants, or other devices to navigate. They likely remembered their routes with coastal landmarks that were linked to myths... | Earth And The Environment ...

Did a loud boom startle you or your neighbors’ dogs on Saturday night in Southern California? If so, you’re not alone. SpaceX announced that its spacecraft, Dragon, reentered Earth’s atmosphere ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

Boulder County Plein Air Festival: Artists paint in various locations around Boulder County May 31 through June 5. The ...

Massive seafloor craters off California are shaped by ancient underwater sediment flows—not methane—revealing a hidden history beneath the waves.

Known as the Sargasso Sea, sailors have crossed it for centuries, but few notice the border when they slip into glassy indigo ...

Scientists confirm Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, submerged almost two million square miles, with only 5% above water.

From space, the Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space will link to some of the most accurate clocks on Earth to create a ...

The European Space Agency’s ACES mission could ultimately pave the way for a global network of atomic clocks that make these ...

New research reveals that Venus may still be geologically alive, with massive circular features pointing to hot plumes ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

A minor, 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey.