The Greenland Ice Sheet is cracking open more rapidly as it responds to climate change. The warning comes in a new ...

The Lac du Der was once just a passing glimpse for hundreds of thousands of cranes flying from Scandinavia in search of ...

Fast-moving floodwaters rose Monday in northeastern Australia after forcing many to flee, blacking out homes, and sweeping ...

Japan's space agency said on Sunday it successfully launched a navigation satellite on its new flagship H3 rocket as the ...

Along the long road from American icon to endangered species and back again, the bald eagle—the national bird of the United ...

Piecing together fragments of the world's earliest known rune stone shows they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle and may have ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

Two-thirds of animal and plant populations are declining in genetic diversity, which makes it harder to adapt to ...

Before species go extinct, their populations often shrink and become isolated. Healthy populations tend to have a large gene pool with many genetic variants circulating. But the path to extinction ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...