The Trump administration is requesting the cancellation of billions of dollars in funds for space science, renewable energy, ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to redraw the map of the solar system by discovering millions of small, fast-moving objects hidden all around us.

Archaeological evidence uncovered at the Birds of Paradise wetlands complex in Belize indicates that the community there survived the Maya collapse thanks to sophisticated knowledge of wetland farming ...

The asteroid Ryugu is seen by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft from a distance of 6 kilometers. Credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of ...

Oceans (including the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic, above) absorb about 91% of the excess energy hanging out in the Earth’s climate these days. Credit: NASA Every year, the World Meteorological ...

These images show where earthquakes happened during the Noto Peninsula swarm in Japan. Maps (a) and (c) use a standard existing method (GrowClust), while maps (b) and (d) show the results from the new ...

Roughly 260 million years ago, China’s Mount Emei was the site of prodigious volcanism. Credit: Jiaheng Shen Volcanism is commonly associated with an uptick in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2) levels ...

A chapter on climate science has been removed from a manual designed to be an independent, neutral source of scientific ...

A new analysis projects that as much as 120,610 square kilometers of new, ice-free land could emerge in Antarctica by 2300. Credit: NASA/Jim Ross A warming climate could expose a Pennsylvania-sized ...

While the rocky planets of our solar system started forming at the same time, their divergent evolution led to varied surface environments and potential for habitability. A new article in Reviews of ...

One of the striking phenomena that can be observed during long lasting droughts is that trees start to lose their leaves either by leaf browning or leaf shedding. Using a computer model of optimal ...