Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Is Earth's inner core solid or liquid? While the inner core is extremely hot, experts have known that it is solid for many ...

The town gets its name from the district it sits in, which is home to half of the world’s supply of a group of metals known ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

There was a circle in Maria Burns' yard where grass wouldn't grow and trees died. She knew what it was: An old natural gas ...

Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the ...

Data from oceans, ice and the air all point to the same thing: rising invisible heat. What experiments are working, and what kinds of trials do we need to stop?

Soil is the thin layer of material covering the earth’s surface and is formed from the weathering of rocks. It is made up mainly of mineral particles, organic materials, air, water and living ...

Tropospheric scintillation on Earth-space paths greatly increases at low elevation angles and/or higher carrier frequencies, may impair low margin systems, and can interfere with the power control ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

Composting has gone mainstream. If you're ready to pile on, we've outlined everything you need to know to start a compost ...

Starlink already accounts for 40% of all the satellites ever launched, and each one releases harmful aluminum oxides when ...