A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire planet.

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

Researchers have discovered strong evidence from rocks in Colorado that Earth was covered in ice and snow around 700 million years ago, a period known as 'Snowball Earth'. The study, led by the ...

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process in plasmas, through which the magnetic energy is converted into ...

To celebrate Science Week, we’ve put together a bumper list of 25 scientists based in Ireland who are innovating across STEM.

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process ... in the region downstream of the Earth’s bow shock, magnetosheath, ...

Inside the mission to meet a 'city-killer' asteroid before it hits EarthWhen the 'God of Chaos' asteroid flies by our planet ...

Steven Lamoreaux is an atomic physicist whose research has contributed to our understanding of the dark matter that is bound ...

Microplastics have been detected in human brains, the bellies of sea turtles and the roots of plants. Now, new research led ...

A trio of physicists, two with Coventry University, in the U.K., and the third with Laboratoire National des Champs ...

At 9:52 a.m. EST, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully docked to the forward port of the International Space Station's ...