But what really motivates Mr Trump’s lunge for Arctic land is Greenland’s “rare earths”—a category of materials vital to ...

With the icebergs covering the seafloor, organisms below the shelf cannot get nutrients for survival from the surface. The ...

When the A-84 iceberg calved in January, it unveiled a 209-square-mile swath of seafloor. Nearby scientists rushed to the ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

Up for a challenge? If skies are clear, you may be able to complete a rare feat of visual athletics this coming weekend, and ...

For those of us who approach things by the Goldilocks Principle (not too little, not too much), spring equinox is ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce.

The landing site was close to an ancient volcanic feature called Mons Latreille, which lies just north of the equator.Blue ...