The landscape is stark, dark and dramatic, formed by a series of eruptions in the last 16,000 years that have stacked layer ...

From 9-foot tall ostriches to albatrosses with gargantuan wingspans, here are some of the biggest birds in the world.

The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting ...

Tropospheric scintillation on Earth-space paths greatly increases at low elevation angles and/or higher carrier frequencies, may impair low margin systems, and can interfere with the power control ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Columbia University ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...

The transient field-frequency domain of magnetic dipole in a two-layered conducting Earth has been studied. It is obtained as a summation of waveguide modes plus contributions from branch cuts in the ...