Tropical storms such as typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones are Earth's most powerful weather systems. Born over warm oceans, ...

Rainbow Waterfall, or Waiānuenue, on Hawai'i's Big Island is a natural wonder formed by volcanic activity and the erosive ...

A research team examining three major regions of the Eurasian steppe shows that soil denitrification, the microbial pathway ...

Lab diamonds vs. natural diamonds: what’s the real difference?

Around the world, phytoplankton in the upper ocean help to cycle key nutrients and regulate Earth's climate by absorbing ...

The surprising discovery offers new insight into how prehistoric communities cared for people who were injured or disabled.

A 2022 astronaut photo shows a thick blanket of snow covering Yellowstone Lake, transforming the frozen body of water into a ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere may be preserved in the Moon's soil, offering a long-term record of Earth’s atmospheric ...

New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of alien life that’s stranded on Mars ...

Earth's deep mantle stored enough water in rocks to equal one ocean during our planet's early molten days, helping explain ...

Tin monosulfide (SnS) is a promising, earth-abundant material for thin-film solar cells, but device performance has long been ...