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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Cerrado savanna in Brazil is the second-largest biome in South America and stores as much carbon as 20% of the Amazon rainforest, according to new research. Credit: Andre Dib The Cerrado savanna ...

The dynamics of interactions between aerosols and clouds are far from being completely understood and, therefore, it is a source of uncertainty in climate modeling. In Im et al. [2026], a call is ...

Sediment cores collected by instruments such as this one on the back of R/V Neil Armstrong shed light on how the North Atlantic Ocean of the last ice age circulated. Credit: Alice Carter-Champion A ...