Scientists trekked across Icelandic lava flows that served as stand-ins for Venus’s volcanic landscapes, testing tools and ...

The past year was a shock to the U.S. higher education system. The coming year may see even more jolts. Administration ...

The flow of the Earth’s mantle creates tectonic stresses beneath the lithosphere, the Earth’s rigid outer shell. The stress inside the lithosphere causes its shattering, forming fault-and-fracture ...

The 2020 Bobcat Fire is seen burning in Los Angeles County, California. A new analysis shows that the onset of the state’s wildfire season has been shifting earlier due to climate change. Credit: ...

A new study mapped the ages of forests around the world. Forests in the Congo Basin, as seen in this image, were found to be younger at the end of the study than they were at the beginning. Credit: ...

"Water crisis" is no longer an apt description of the world's fresh water supply—"water bankruptcy" is more accurate, a new United Nations report states. Credit: Chamika Jayasri, Unsplash Research & ...

Astronomer Johannes Kepler made drawings of sunspots in 1607 using a camera obscura. Credit: Kepler, J. (1609), Phaenomenon singulare seu Mercurius in Sole, Thomae Schureri, Leipzig Something freaky ...

As the global climate continues to warm, fire seasons have intensified, and large-scale wildfires have become more frequent in many parts of the world. Factors such as vegetation type, land use ...

Bright swirling blooms of algae and cyanobacteria are seen in the Baltic Sea near the Swedish island of Gotland in July 2019. Large amounts of oxygen in the ocean are consumed as the organic matter in ...

Great white egrets stand in the wetlands surrounding New Orleans. Land in this area of the Mississippi River Delta is sinking, both on its own and in tandem with rising sea levels. Credit: Elise Plunk ...

OSIRIS-REx’s Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism collected more than 120 grams of regolith from asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold, Public Domain Regolith ...

Global river datasets represent rivers that flow downstream in single paths that follow surface elevation, but they often miss branching river systems found in areas such as floodplains, canals, and ...