A satellite imagery tool from RMIT University now allows for the effective detection of beach plastics, aiding cleanup ...

Geoscientists employed current-day stratigraphic, depositional and paleontological models, along with modern technological muscle to provide updated insights of the Cambrian period of the Grand Canyon ...

Since soon after our planet formed, Earth's 4.6 billion-year-long history was dominated by single-celled life. Something ...

I'm very proud to be a … federal employee that does science in a way to benefit everybody,” NIH’s Charles Rotimi says.

I still remember the smell of coal in the air,” Saurabh Kumar says, describing his childhood in Bokaro, a steel township in ...

Pluto. Due to its large mass, it would have a great internal energy that could sustain, for example, subsurface oceans. Its orbit would be very distant, much beyond Neptune, and much more inclined ...

Carl Sagan explained the thought process of the ancient Greek scientist Eratosthenes, who determined the circumference of the Earth.

Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years, well before ...

Researchers are working on technology that could follow NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and hunt for life in the ocean of ...

Coordinated by the Chicago-based water innovation hub Current, in partnership with Argonne and the University of Chicago, ...

NASA’s Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) is ready to launch to the International Space Station to reveal new details ...

Due to its unique ability to monitor Earth’s surface, Synthetic Aperture Radar plays a pivotal role in revolutionizing the geosciences.