A switch from a humid to a dry climate has led the Eastern African Rift Zone to pull apart more freely, new research finds.

When the temperature plunges and the lights go out, staying warm stops being a comfort issue and becomes a safety problem.

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

With literally just hours to go in Phil Murphy’s tenure as governor, his administration adopted the controversial coastal ...

A research group from the European Commission Joint Research Centre has developed a new PV climatic classification, the first to address annual yield and performance ratio. Their work resulted in 10 ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

Gardening is hard work. To do it well takes planning, experimentation, perseverance, and an appreciation for delayed ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some exoplanets, like the one shown in this illustration, may have atmospheres that could make them potentially suitable for life.

Morgan Underwood receives funding from NASA-funded CLEVER Planets (Cycles of Life-Essential Volatile Elements in Rocky Planets) research project. When astronomers search for planets that could host ...

A recent study shows that 80% of UNESCO World Cultural Heritage sites are facing climate stress, with wood and stone constructions susceptible to a range of threats from extreme heat, humidity, ...