earth science
Surface deformation or other signs of an impending explosion may not occur. Instead, supervolcanic eruptions can be much more insidious.
The findings at L’Anse aux Meadows mark the the earliest known year by which human migration had encircled the planet.
The mediocrity principle is often used to make claims about the abundance of life across the universe, but these claims are likely unfounded.
A decade ago, scientists weren’t able to confidently connect any individual weather event to climate change, even though the warming trends were clear.
Try this: It’s about 10 times the number of cups of water in all the oceans of Earth.
Civilization is facing an existential threat from climate change. Will we humans make it? Does anyone in the universe make it?
The unconventional method could help astronomers better track meteorites that fall during the daytime.
Shocked city dwellers who stared at it were blinded instantly, then the entire city caught fire.
With the huge growth in satellites, fears of a crowded sky are coming true.
The Copernican principle states that Earth is an ordinary planet, but that does not mean that life is ordinary in the universe.
Phobos and Deimos only have two explanations, and neither one adds up.
The atmosphere’s habitable zone is so small, several mountain ranges extend beyond it.
Even with all the recent impacts we’ve seen, it might be more “foe” than “friend” to us.
Whenever the climate cooled, our hominin ancestors would set up shop in the Arabian Peninsula and vanish again when the planet warmed up.
Icebergs aren’t just a threat to unsinkable ships. Their ability to cause underwater landslides poses a danger to coastal cities.
Scientists look to erupted sea glass — lava that erupted in the ocean and was instantly chilled by the surrounding water — to take Earth’s temperature.
Scientists discover surviving viruses in 15,000-year-old glacier ice on the Tibetan Plateau in China.
The eastern inner core located beneath Indonesia’s Banda Sea is growing faster than the western side beneath Brazil.
Strange underwater icicles form in the Earth’s coldest regions and freeze living organisms in place.
Trees store carbon dioxide, have a cooling effect in cities, and reduce flood risks.
A new study mapped areas of the U.S. that are most likely to suffer natural disasters.
The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis argues that a comet strike caused major changes to climate and human cultures on Earth about 13,000 years ago.
The Taupo volcano was responsible for one of the most violent eruptions on record.
A new study reveals what caused most life on Earth to die out during the end-Permian extinction, also known as the Great Dying.
Geologists discover a rhythm to major geologic events.
The first nation to make bitcoin legal tender will use geothermal energy to mine it.
As droughts threaten water supplies across the planet, some municipalities aim to utilize an untapped resource: sewage water.
We have pipelines for oil and natural gas. Why not water?
There were at least four major climate catastrophes that reshaped global religion. It could be happening again.
A new study calls the technique “location spoofing.”