Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

Chinese radar detects an ionospheric "plasma bubbles" over Egypt from Hainan, revealing key advances in global monitoring of ...

A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...

A just-issued monthly report has found the first six months of 2025 are pacing just behind the record warm year of 2024. Here ...

Lynas rewrote the rare earth playbook, starting with dysprosium in Malaysia and other industry players are starting to make their mark.

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

Long-standing questions about the migration of early modern humans in East Asia may finally be answered, thanks to a rare and ...

Within the last 200 years, we’ve discovered about two dozen species of hominins in Europe, Africa, and Asia—which you can see laid out in this map.

Matt LaFever has reported on California’s North Coast in print and radio for nearly a decade. A Humboldt State grad and ...