In a leap toward sustainable desalination, researchers have created a solar-powered sponge-like aerogel that turns seawater ...

An illustration depicting the formation of TTGs in a two-stage mantle plume-sagduction model.Image credit: Adapted from Zhao, ...

Beginning in the 1960s, satellite instruments have measured Earth's reflected broadband shortwave radiation and emitted ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled so far from Earth that the relative position of the stars is beginning to shift — ...

"Its occurrence is like finding a tropical seed in Arctic ice – indicating either an unexpected local environment or ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, while dinosaurs were still roaming the land, a parasitic fungus hijacked the mind of a ...

World Asteroid Day is observed every year on June 30 to raise awareness about asteroids and the potential hazards they pose ...

Forecasters are set to lose some of their sharpest eyes in the sky just a few months before Atlantic hurricane season peaks ...

NPR's science podcast Short Wave shares how taking a nap can deliver a eureka moment, a new picture of a planet right after ...

A physicist solves an old thermodynamic puzzle and demonstrates directly from the second law that entropy disappears at ...

A rocky outcrop in a remote corner of northern Quebec appears serene in its eerie isolation on the eastern shore of Canada’s ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to oblivion ...