The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to redraw the map of the solar system by discovering millions of small, fast-moving objects hidden all around us.

A chapter on climate science has been removed from a manual designed to be an independent, neutral source of scientific ...

The Trump administration is requesting the cancellation of billions of dollars in funds for space science, renewable energy, ...

The asteroid Ryugu is seen by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft from a distance of 6 kilometers. Credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of ...

Emperor penguins molt every summer, replacing all their feathers over the period of about a month. Credit: Peter Fretwell Peter Fretwell, a remote sensing scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, ...

A new analysis projects that as much as 120,610 square kilometers of new, ice-free land could emerge in Antarctica by 2300. Credit: NASA/Jim Ross A warming climate could expose a Pennsylvania-sized ...

Archaeological evidence uncovered at the Birds of Paradise wetlands complex in Belize indicates that the community there survived the Maya collapse thanks to sophisticated knowledge of wetland farming ...

While the rocky planets of our solar system started forming at the same time, their divergent evolution led to varied surface environments and potential for habitability. A new article in Reviews of ...

One of the striking phenomena that can be observed during long lasting droughts is that trees start to lose their leaves either by leaf browning or leaf shedding. Using a computer model of optimal ...

Faults in mountainous regions commonly align with valleys and passes. This has important implications for infrastructures like roads and tunnels along and across mountains. The Brenner Fault in the ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft passed north to south (yellow track) over Jupiter’s atmosphere in August 2022, detecting a cluster of radio pulses from lightning (turquoise circles). A background map from the ...