At the foot of Sainte Victoire, the mountain in Provence immortalized by Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne, a paleontologist brushes meticulously through a mound of red clay looking for fossils.
These are not any old fossils, but 75-million-year-old...
On March 28, 2025, a major earthquake with a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.7 struck Mandalay, central Myanmar (referred to as the 2025 Myanmar earthquake). This event caused severe shaking and substantial damage in Myanmar and...
A pair of planetary scientists at the University of California, working with a colleague from the California Institute of Technology, has discovered that a...
Back in 2007, I talked with Rob Manning, engineer extraordinaire at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he told me something shocking. Even though he...
Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard's star, the closest single star to our...
New discoveries about Jupiter could lead to a better understanding of Earth's own space environment and influence a long-running scientific debate about the solar...
