When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

In February 1995, a small research organization known as the SETI Institute launched what was then the most comprehensive ...

The Army helicopter and regional American Eagle jet that collided over Washington are both workhorse aircraft that operate around the world on a daily basis. Officials say there were 60 ...

Viral posts suggest Google Maps imagery shows a human trafficking plea in L.A., but police say there's no evidence of ...

One of the most powerful online tools at your disposal is the sprawling Google Earth project, which allows you to use ...

The Walt Disney World Speedway was a one-mile tri-oval built next to one of the resort’s massive parking lots, just south of ...

The new model shows blobs within Earth's mantle where seismic waves travel slower than usual (blue), which suggests they may be subducted slab chunks. (Image credit: Sebastian Noe/ETH Zurich ...

But the most drastic change to the industry came on this day in January 2001, when Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the launch of iTunes. People had been burning CDs onto computers for some time ...

Artist’s conception of the K2-360 system, showing the ultra-dense super-Earth K2-360 b (red) in its extremely close orbit around its Sun-like star, with the more distant companion K2-360 c (blue) in ...

Something strange is happening in Earth’s magnetic field, and it has caught NASA’s attention. A massive region of lower magnetic intensity, known as the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), has appeared ...