Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system ...

Earth’s energy imbalance has more than doubled in 20 years, indicating faster-than-expected global warming. Most excess heat ...

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Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.

More than 30 million people globally have done a family history DNA test, but few realise this multi-billion dollar ...

I am hiking along the Metacomet Ridge in Greenfield, Massachusetts – a rather steep basaltic structure, modestly less than five hundred feet high and topped by a stately brick tower constructed in ...

From 9-foot tall ostriches to albatrosses with gargantuan wingspans, here are some of the biggest birds in the world.

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon ...

The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...

Researchers say tugboats could tow huge underwater parachutes around the ocean to manually power a vital ocean current.

The Himalayan Mountains are home to the highest peak in Mount Everest at 29,029 feet, but also to the third largest deposit of ice and snow in the world, after Antarctica and the Arctic. Now the ...