Science

From above Earth, LandSat 9’s keen eye captures a stunning Y-shaped meeting of ridge and river in China’s Tarim Basin.

Researchers discovered a new field of ancient tektites in South Australia, revealing a long-forgotten asteroid impact. These 11-million-year-old glass fragments differ chemically and geographically from other known tektites. Although the crater remains missing, the find exposes a massive event once…

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Iowa as geomagnetic storm conditions are predicted for tonight.

Struzan’s signature artwork defined an entire generation of Hollywood filmmaking.

Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritskiy will conduct a spacewalk outside the ISS today (Oct. 16), and you can watch it live.

Chris Anderson took over TED 25 years ago, when the internet was young and optimism abounded about the future it could deliver.

SpaceX launched 28 more of its Starlink broadband satellites on Thursday morning (Oct. 16), sending them up from Florida’s Space Coast.

According to new research, 42% of Australians still have low awareness of coercive control. The study, published in the Australian Journal of Social Issues, revealed that nearly half of respondents were unfamiliar with the term or its meaning. The paper…

“Pundits” kept Sanskrit scholarship alive in remote settlements as British control swept across India, a major new research project will show. The largely forgotten literary figures and their works—ranging from erotic plays to legal treatises—are neglected treasures of Indian intellectual…

New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than 900°C, radioactive elements shifted upward, cooling and strengthening the landmasses that support life. This ancient heat engine also distributed valuable…