How the polar vortex and warm ocean intensified a major US winter storm Mathew Barlow, UMass Lowell and Judah Cohen, ...

When the last local pea processing plant closed in this part of Washington state, the county’s port commission invested millions to help farmers pivot to high-value grains.

Scientists, nonprofits, the state of Florida and the federal government are all scrambling to rescue and rebuild the reef tract. But a new study found that if Florida does not preserve what we have ...

How did the Wet Bandits survive Home Alone? A trauma-focused breakdown of the head, neck, burn and electric injuries they’d ...

“In many decisions, nature has been treated as essentially worthless or of negligible value when compared to other kinds of ...

At the start of the year, Earth will quietly reach a milestone in its orbit around the sun. Known as perihelion, this is the moment when our planet is closer to the sun than at any other point in the ...

Billions of years ago, Earth was an uninhabitable rock covered in magma. Scientists are still working to decipher the tale of how it transformed into a blue and green orb teeming with life. However, ...

Russia has heaped praise on its new S-500 missile system, but it is still unclear if it can actually build the systems in meaningful numbers. Boasting about military capabilities is something that ...

The mystifying invader 3I/ATLAS, a comet that had been capturing the attention of expert and amateur astronomers alike, passed Earth early Friday morning, making its closest approach to our planet as ...

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's atmosphere have landed in the lunar soil, creating a possible source of ...

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