New research found that sediments emptied into the waters of Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska, by Aialik Glacier were more dense in bioavailable micronutrients than sediments reaching the fjords ...

Regular, alternating layers in Gale Crater may have been deposited as the result of tides raised by a moon at least 18 times the mass of Phobos, a study says. Pictures of a rocky outcrop snapped ...

Aurorae such as the southern lights, seen here over Antarctica, show the geomagnetic field in action. Some areas of the field, which shields Earth’s surface from charged solar particles, are stronger ...

The ocean has helped mitigate global warming by absorbing around a quarter of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions, along with more than 90% of the excess heat those emissions generate. This ...

Improvements in subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasting (S2S), which projects weather 2 weeks to 2 months in advance, could support more informed decisions about when to plant and irrigate crops, among ...

New research suggests that as Earth traveled through space over billions of years, its movements in and out of the spiral arms of the Milky Way (seen here from the top of Cerro Armazones, Chile) may ...

Coupling an AI-driven model of the atmosphere with a model of the ocean could help scientists create highly efficient emulations of the entire Earth system. Modelers have demonstrated that artificial ...

Storm Agnes is seen over the Bay of Biscay offshore western Europe on 27 September 2023 in this image captured by the Flexible Combined Imager on the Meteosat Third Generation satellite. Credit: ...

A new study mapped the ages of forests around the world. Forests in the Congo Basin, as seen in this image, were found to be younger at the end of the study than they were at the beginning. Credit: ...

When plankton find themselves in hot water, organic matters stalls at the surface and disrupts transport of carbon to the deep ocean.

Warm water flowing into fjords and beneath ice shelves will continue to be a prime cause of glacial melting as global temperatures rise. This melting will, in turn, contribute to sea level rise and ...

Enterprise Rupes, a large fault that cuts across the Rembrandt Basin crater (the large crater on the right) on the surface of Mercury. This fault—and many others like it—may have resulted from the ...