Some 11,600 years ago, one geological period gave way to another in dramatic fashion. As the last glacial period ended, Greenland, for example, experienced a 10° C (18° F) temperature increase over a ...

Berkeley — Using a state-of-the-art computer model of the lunar interior, geophysicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that a mighty burp early in the moon’s history could ...

Last week, scientists presented an image of a supermassive black hole burping—twice. The behemoth had guzzled on gas before belching out a cloud of high-energy particles and settling in for a few ...