How ancient African terracing systems, validated by the Green Belt Movement, prefigure the 'innovative' principles of space ...

The project has recently been submitted to the European Space Agency for consideration as a future mission. The current mission design proposes a launch in the 2030s, returning at least 400 minutes of ...

Greenland’s mineral resources hold massive economic potential, but accessing them isn’t easy President Donald Trump’s desire ...

On a high, wind-scoured plateau of Antarctica, scientists have carved a small frozen vault into the ice and begun filling it ...

In subzero winds, hypothermia announces itself in small, easy-to-miss ways. Here’s what one Nat Geo Explorer does to combat it in some of the coldest places on Earth.

Remembered as a pioneering atmospheric scientist who bridged planetary science, climate policy, and undergraduate education, ...

Backed by a National Science Foundation grant of more than $500,000, Pfeifer, the lead principal investigator, and a team of ...

A bullet-speed experiment reveals that the Earth's inner core may be softer and more dynamic than previously thought.

With a synchronized tap from run-of-the-mill hammers on metal plates resting on the ground, researchers kneeling in nine fields across four continents believe they’ve hit upon more than just the earth ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history could have delivered a major share of Earth's water. A new study by Universities Space Research ...

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, ...