Moving at roughly 20,505 miles per hour along the distant world's equator, it’s the fastest known jet stream that wraps around a planet ...

As we take our daily walks along the Earth’s surface, there are secrets hidden under our feet. Just this week, research revealed that two ancient, massive islands are buried in the planet’s mantle.

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

They also act as a kind of absorbent blanket around the earth, absorbing radiation from our own planet and radiating it back down. This can be vital for keeping us warm, but if to ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific ...

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.

January started out with a meteor shower and now has a planetary alignment in store. Here's what you'll be able to see and ...

Heads up Triad! Four planets are visible in the evening sky this month, and another two planets can be found with a little help. dress warmly and look up this month.

Chorus waves are mysterious, chirping signals produced by spiraling plasma inside our planet's magnetic field. But a new detection suggests scientists may understand less about them than first thought ...

Sky watchers are in for a treat this month as the stars align to give amateurs a shot to see six planets at once.

For much of January and February, you have the chance to see six planets in our solar system after dark, although two — Uranus and Neptune — will be hard to see without a telescope or high-powered ...

At around 620 miles high, these subsurface “islands of rock” stand more than 100 times higher than Mount Everest’s summit of around 5.5 miles, ...