Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...
Earth’s magnetosphere, once thought to have a simple electric polarity pattern, has revealed a surprising twist. New ...
Diverse life forms exist on and within the ocean floor. These primarily consist of microbes, tiny organisms that can cope ...
QUT researchers have uncovered critical biological processes that allow corals to attach to a reef in a finding that could ...
A deep-diving underwater glider is set to begin an epic 73,000km five-year journey circumnavigating the entire globe to collect data to improve weather forecasting. The pioneering world-first tech ...
The sun was just rising over Santa Clara Valley Medical Center when nurse Emiko Rivera arrived to begin her shift at the hospital’s burn center. As one of the few certified burn centers in Northern ...
About 13 miles up a winding national forest road near Three Rivers, Oregon, Alain Bonneville stands in the middle of a small clear-cut site called Pad 29. Bonneville is the chief geoscientist at ...
A pair of diamonds that formed hundreds of kilometers deep in Earth’s malleable mantle both contain specks of materials that form in completely opposing chemical environments—a combination so unusual ...
A diamond slice of a South African diamond showing various inclusion-rich zones and laser ablation pits from microanalytical sampling. Diamonds from South Africa’s Voorspoed mine have revealed the ...
A pair of diamonds that formed hundreds of kilometers deep in Earth’s malleable mantle both contain specks of materials that form in completely opposing chemical environments—a combination so unusual ...
A massive asteroid nearly the size of a New York skyscraper will make a close approach, or pass, by Earth in the early hours of Sept. 18, according to scientists. They say the asteroid, officially ...
The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The space rock was previously predicted to have a slim chance of impacting our ...