For billions of years, Earth has been bombarded by tiny particles of rock and metal from space. When these extraterrestrial ...

This 2023 astronaut photo shows three glaciers merging into a single massive ice mass in the Karakoram mountains. The stripy ...

Whether a magnet collapses abruptly or smoothly is determined by its structure. As a general rule, hard materials are simple ...

In 2023, the world’s oceans experienced the most intense and widespread marine heatwaves ever recorded, with some events ...

Scientists studying a puzzling hot zone beneath America, called the North Atlantic Anomaly, have proposed a mantle wave ...

The impacts ripple into human systems — reducing fishery yields, straining aquaculture and affecting industries that rely on stable ocean conditions.

For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the ...

Peat fires and the climate puzzle While incorporating peatland fire feedbacks into Earth system models (ESMs) is essential for accurate climate projections, most existing models lack a ...

Something strange happens to water as it moves through the stems of horsetail plants – and this unique process provides ...

On July 9, 2025, scientists at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reported that the Earth completed its rotation approximately 1.3 to 1.6 milliseconds faster than ...

Some of Earth's largest climate systems may collapse not with a bang, but with a whimper. Surprisingly, experiments with ...