Earth's movements in space could tell us where to look for oil underground. Recent work highlights the role of Earth's orbit in the formation of shale oil, thus proposing a new method for ...

An analysis of the air above two major Chinese cities has revealed the presence of a toxic element that has ripped through ...

In the shimmering blue waters off Japan's Yonaguni Island lies a geological wonder. With its top peaking just 6 meters (20 ...

The bones are tangled and entwined, as though the bodies were thrown or rolled on top of each other. Archaeologists have ...

Solar Orbiter has captured the clearest evidence yet that a solar flare grows through a cascading “magnetic avalanche.” Small, weak magnetic disturbances rapidly multiplied, triggering stronger and ...

New research suggests that long-term exposure to very low concentrations of chlorpyrifos, a widely used insecticide, can ...

A look at some of the ongoing work at the Whiteface Mountain Field Station, tracking a range of compounds in the clouds ...

China's Chang'e-6 mission brought back lunar samples from the Moon for the first time in 2024, and this regolith has now revealed something. Around 1,935.3 grams of lunar soil reached Earth in June of ...

These design evolutions suggest that the modern engagement ring is no longer confined to a single archetype. There are still ...

The ESA's Solar Orbiter has discovered that solar flares act like avalanches, growing from weak disturbances into powerful ...

Two major Chinese cities are sitting under clouds of plastic, a study has found, revealing that plastic is present in ...

Zhurong Rover Water on Mars reveals buried sediments in Utopia Planitia suggesting liquid water activity as recent as 750 million years ago.