Scientists use fossil pollen to study ancient plant diversity and guide future conservation action strategies worldwide.

Imminent loss of NASA's Aura and Canada's SCISAT will severely diminish scientists’ ability to monitor ozone-depleting substances in the stratosphere.

Belize's Great Blue Hole is one of Earth's most mysterious features. Now, scientists have discovered the natural oddity ...

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic ...

Researchers have discovered cratonic thinning occurring beneath North America, driven by the remnants of the Farallon Plate.

A strange rock covered in tiny spheres may hold secrets to Mars’ watery — or fiery — past.

The "music" of starquakes - enormous vibrations caused by bursting bubbles of gas that ripple throughout the bodies of many ...

The University of Hawaii astronomer’s interest in habitable worlds began at a geothermal field in Iceland, where she and a ...

Kilometers above the Earth’s surface, the ozone layer protects humanity and all life from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays.

SpaceX's Fram2 mission has captured the first-ever space video of Earth's polar regions. Launched from NASA's Kennedy Space ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the ...