In January, 100 on-site contractors at JPL were let go after NASA instructed the lab to reduce spending in anticipation of a ...

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.

A ground-breaking discovery is sparking hope that geothermal energy at least five times more powerful than current wells ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

Scientists can't know precisely when a volcano is about to erupt, but they can sometimes pick up telltale signs. That ...

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

At more than 160 million years old, a recently discovered amphibian fossil has set a new record for the earliest known ...

On Mars however, with its lack of plate tectonics and a basaltic crust dominated by dark minerals like olivine and pyroxene, ...

That's the puzzle scientists have been wrestling with since 2014, when the first 100-foot-wide crater burst through soil that ...

The general election results mark the first time in 113 years that Montana has been entirely represented by Republicans at ...

Paleontologists recently discovered a rare mammal fossil in western Colorado. It's a genus of mammal that lived between 70 ...

Boatzon looked at the economic and environmental importance of the 10 largest lakes in the U.S. Lake sizes and locations are ...