The parking apron in front of U.S. Air Force facilities at Christchurch International Airport, pictured in March 2025, can be quite busy over the summer period. (Gordon Arthur) CHRISTCHURCH, New ...

Stanford researchers have integrated machine learning with high-resolution satellite and aerial observations to analyze the ...

More than 50 years after Apollo 8’s legendary Earthrise photo, a new image from the Moon’s surface delivers a hauntingly ...

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have successfully conducted an ice-cap detection experiment in Antarctica using a domestically ...

The increasingly broad application of the phrase "tipping point" across biogeophysical and social phenomena muddles its ...

A new study finds that climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too.

It flows clockwise around Antarctica and is the strongest ocean current on Earth: the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, ACC for ...

Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the ...

The oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth (3.5 billion years old) has been discovered in Western Australia's Pilbara region.

Antarctica, Earth's southernmost continent, is a place of extremes. Over 99% of Antarctica is covered in ice, which is up to 4.9 km thick inland, and extends over the sea in the form of ice shelves ...

Global sea ice cover hit a historic low in February as the world endured exceptional heat, with temperatures near the North ...