With only 7.5% of Earth's surface covered in fertile, agricultural soil, it's critically important to maintain the soil to grow food, filter water, and regulate the climate.
Much as we may treasure and proclaim our independence, we actually live in a protective bubble called the heliosphere.
Dinosaurs' extinction "re-engineered" Earth's surface, according to new research. The reptiles had such an "immense" impact on the planet that their sudden exit led to wide-scale changes in landscapes ...
While Mars today only has a wispy remnant of an atmosphere, it may once have had one hundreds of times thicker with a pressure three times that on Earth ...
Researchers celebrate 10th anniversary of gravitational wave discovery, announce verification of a Hawking theorem.
"Thanks to Albert Einstein, we know that space and time are intertwined and are best thought of as facets of a single entity, ...
Two black holes collided 1.3 billion light years from Earth, creating a 'ringing,' which in turn allowed astrophysicists to ...
The LIGO-Virgo-Kagra collaboration presents the loudest gravitational wave signal from two merging black holes, confirming predictions made by Stephen Hawking and Einstein's general theory of ...
Special report: New gallium and rare earth zones have been discovered at Axel REE’s Caladão asset in Brazil’s Lithium Valley, ...
LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA celebrate the anniversary of the first gravitational waves detection and announce verification of ...
Antarctic ice is melting at a startling pace, and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is one of the greatest sources of uncertainty ...