This diffusion‑limited regime likely dominates for fluffier aggregates made of phytoplankton remains, fecal pellets, or ...

A recently published study has revealed a little-known tectonic process unfolding beneath Turkey’s Central Anatolian Plateau, ...

Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells ...

Found in the Sahara Desert, the space rocks contain some materials we haven’t detected on Mercury, but we’re not ruling it ...

Today, nearly 40% of the Earth’s land surface is classified as degraded, directly affecting over 3 billion people and causing dire effects on the climate, biodiversity, and livelihoods across ...

For the bridging adhesion of different classes of materials in their intact functional states, the adhesion of biomolecules onto inorganic surfaces is a necessity. A new molecular design strategy for ...

The heat wave that has blanketed much of Europe is expected to linger over the continent this week, driving up temperatures ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

Lava tubes and caves exist on Earth, and they have provided refuge to voyaging humans from intense weather for almost 10,000 years. The cave discovered on the moon is likely to be very similar to ...

A member of the German collective Zero Group, he hammered thousands of nails — into columns, chairs, canvases — expressing ...

We love sci-fi movies for their bold ideas that help us imagine the future of the Earth and life on distant planets. But sometimes we come across film ...

The asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth at 7.59 p.m. ET (2359 GMT) on June 5, at which time it will pass 2,170,309 miles (3,492,787 kilometers) from our planet, over nine times the ...