A new map offers a new perspective on the city, revealing the steady, ever-present natural radiation emerging from the ground ...

Tiny aerosol particles in the air play a big role in regulating how much sunlight our planet absorbs or reflects, and how clouds form above us. In a recent study, researchers found that extreme heat ...

Although there is no scientific connection between Ramadan and the planetary parade, it is definitely a lucky coincidence between two independent cycles ...

Crystal Grottoes Caverns is Maryland’s only show cave, which means it’s the only cavern in the state that’s been developed ...

New scientific theory based on ancient proteins suggests that genes did not arise as we believed and that life could have started elsewhere.

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we talk to an author who took a closer look at whether taking climate action ...

A new study hints that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was created around 400 million years ago, when two massive moons smashed into each other. This hypothesis could also help to solve several other ...

The find could help keep upcoming lunar exploration missions safe by assessing potential for future moonquakes.

The simulations showed that the gravity hole was initially much less pronounced. Between roughly 50 million and 30 million years ago, however, it intensified significantly. This period coincides with ...

In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key ...