It was not until decades later, when I read Rachel Carson’s The Sea All Around Us, that I learned about the Sargasso Sea. It ...

The Kazan Declaration of 23 October 2024, adopted at the 16th BRICS Summit hosted by Russia in the city of Kazan on the Volga river from 22 to 24 October ...

The existence of “Snowball Earth” is now widely accepted, but the idea ice coverage was universal is so extraordinary and ...

"The Grand Canyon is an epic Rosetta Stone for geology," Denver Museum of Nature and Science geologist James Hagadorn said.

Everyone’s focused on the risk of this object one day hitting Earth, but just getting close to us may do extreme things to it ...

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a century.

Armed with advanced technology, decades of expertise, and insights from an NSF-funded study, a multi-institution team of ...

How old is Earth? Our planet's age is known from a variety of sources, from rocks on our own planet to ones from the moon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Non-fiction publishing is failing its readers. It is pumping out books with supposedly game-changing ideas, without bothering to ensure basic accuracy. These tomes have the appearance of academic ...

Scientists paint a compelling picture of what happened the day the S2 meteorite crashed into Earth 3.26 billion years ago. Billions of years ago, long before anything resembling life as we know it ...

Earth is constantly getting pummeled by meteorites. We are unaware of most of them, as they burn up in our atmosphere before they hit the ground. Every now and again, though, something larger gets ...

Black excels at packaging science for lay readers, weaving illuminating natural history into sparkling descriptions of what ...