By depositing substantial piles of dung, vicuñas are speeding up plant colonization on freshly deglaciated terrain.

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

Humans have become a geologic force by cooking the planet — using fire on a scale that is altering land, water, air and ...

Widen the aperture a bit, and we can envision Earth entering a fire age comparable to the ice ages of the Pleistocene, ...

Harvard scientists explain how Mars had warm spells billions of years ago, allowing rivers and lakes to exist.

One of the most powerful online tools at your disposal is the sprawling Google Earth project, which allows you to use ...

A melting ice patch in the Rocky Mountains uncovered an ancient forest, and these trees have stories to tell about dynamic ...

Autlook has acquired Robin Petré’s timely feature documentary 'Only on Earth,' ahead of its world premiere at the Berlin Film ...

This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...

Researchers identified geological features that point to a single massive flooding event that refilled the Mediterranean Sea ...

A January 2025 cold wave plunged Chicago into subzero temperatures, initially without snow. By late January, snowfall ...