Research findings are available online in the journal Nature Astronomy. The original story “ Frozen ocean world found lurking between Mars and Jupiter ” is published in The Brighter Side of News. Like ...

For more than 30 years, scientists have argued over whether a vast ocean once spread across the northern third of Mars. Now a ...

The Waiho Loop moraine in New Zealand's southern Alps had long been viewed as a southern icon of a recent glacier response to cooling climate, possibly the Younger Dryas cold event. But a closer look ...

Australia’s famous Twelve Apostles didn’t just erode into existence—they were slowly pushed up from the ocean floor by ...

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Scientists have found that the crust beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift is thinning to a critical point, signaling that the ...

As the war in Iran extends into its seventh week and a truce feels increasingly shaky, many Americans expressed bewilderment about a conflict that came with little warning. Roughly six in 10 Americans ...

Krystal Zimmerman, an Army veteran who fought in Iraq, is worried about America’s latest war in the Middle East. She supported attacking Iran’s nuclear sites, but as the conflict lurches from bombings ...

For the first time, scientists have watched a subduction zone literally fall apart beneath the ocean floor. Using advanced ...

While analyzing strong-motion data close to fault lines, a group of researchers at Kyoto University noticed something ...