The asteroid Ryugu is seen by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft from a distance of 6 kilometers. Credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of ...

Oceans (including the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic, above) absorb about 91% of the excess energy hanging out in the Earth’s climate these days. Credit: NASA Every year, the World Meteorological ...

The Trump administration is requesting the cancellation of billions of dollars in funds for space science, renewable energy, ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to redraw the map of the solar system by discovering millions of small, fast-moving objects hidden all around us.

A chapter on climate science has been removed from a manual designed to be an independent, neutral source of scientific ...

Archaeological evidence uncovered at the Birds of Paradise wetlands complex in Belize indicates that the community there survived the Maya collapse thanks to sophisticated knowledge of wetland farming ...

A new analysis projects that as much as 120,610 square kilometers of new, ice-free land could emerge in Antarctica by 2300. Credit: NASA/Jim Ross A warming climate could expose a Pennsylvania-sized ...

The accumulation of plastic debris along the shoreline of Cozumel Island is continually shaped by coastal and marine processes. Credit: Salvador Reynoso-Cruces Standing on Cozumel Island’s leeward ...

In groundwater flow and transport modeling, aquifer characterization is still a hot topic. Ultimately, it means giving each grid cell in a numerical model hydraulic property values. This is a daunting ...

Sediment cores collected by instruments such as this one on the back of R/V Neil Armstrong shed light on how the North Atlantic Ocean of the last ice age circulated. Credit: Alice Carter-Champion A ...

Meteorological tsunamis, or meteotsunamis, are long ocean waves in the tsunami frequency band that are generated by traveling air pressure and wind disturbances. These underrated phenomena pose ...

Geothermal activity near Hveragerði, Iceland, has created a natural laboratory where researchers can study how ecosystems, including microbes and plans, respond to long-term warming. Credit: Sara ...