Iron carried in clouds of Saharan dust blown across the Atlantic Ocean is increasingly available to tiny life forms the further it travels.

Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia, where researchers have reconstructed the genomes of thousands of people. However, fewer than two ...

The world map we know today owes its shape to the daring exploits of explorers who ventured into uncharted territories, ...

New research suggests that soil erosion is making floods more deadly in desert areas and warns against the rising risks to ...

A partial lunar eclipse of the Super Harvest Moon is coming on Sept. 17, 2024. Here's how you can watch it online for free.

International Observe the Moon Night starts on Saturday, according to NASA. That event began in 2010 for lunar lovers around ...

The Next Full Moon is a Partial Lunar Eclipse; a SuperMoon; the Corn Moon; the Harvest Moon; the Fruit or Barley Moon; the end of Ganesh Chaturthi and the start of Pitru Paksha; Madhu Purnima; the Mid ...

This year's first place Earth Prize went to four teens for developing a new way to visualize flood risk using AI and computer ...

Labels written in cuneiform, an ancient text, note each location on the map, according to The British Museum ... She covers several science topics from planet Earth to paleontology and archaeology to ...

The colonization of Africa has created many seemingly arbitrary (and sometimes problematic) borders. One of these African borders is so complicated that it is the only one of its kind in the world.

This first attempt at mapping the last 1.8 billion years of Earth’s history is a leap forward in the scientific grand challenge to map our world. But it is just that – a first attempt.