There are infinitely many prime numbers, but the biggest one we know of goes by the name M82589933 and contains more than 24 million digits.

Congress vested responsibility for the administration of the Smithsonian in a Board of Regents, consisting of the Chief Justice of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, three ...

Oct. 30, 2024 — More accurate orbit predictions for satellites and space debris as well as a better understanding of the water masses present on Earth: Researchers at achieved both using ...

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the ...

The findings suggest vast rivers of glacial meltwater rushed into the sea, pooling over dense salty ocean water.

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a ...

There are no showtimes for this date. Based on authentic scientific data from groundbreaking space missions, Worlds Beyond Earth takes viewers on an exhilarating adventure through our cosmic ...

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the ...

Researchers studying carbon emissions from ancient volcanoes are exploring the geology of large dikes, such as this one in ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school. By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents ...

Stonehenge’s central stone, known as the Altar Stone, may have had Scottish and not Welsh origins, researchers say. The finding suggests that Late Neolithic ...