A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...

Lake Salda, in southwestern Turkey, bears a close resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater, which is currently being sampled by ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.

Scientists uncover Ledumahadi mafube, a massive 26,000-pound dinosaur, shedding new light on evolution and prehistoric Earth.

Net accumulation of snow, part of the ice sheet’s surface mass balance, was far above average for the year ... the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets contain more than 99 percent of freshwater ice on ...

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

On March 15, in the largest protest in its history, around 1,000 Greenlanders protested outside the U.S. consulate against ...

Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be ...

Tubiello, senior statistician and team leader at FAO’s Environment Statistics Unit, explains this is because Europe (which in their aggregates includes Russia) has the largest land mass at ...