Commercial vessels, particularly fishing boats, are known sources of ocean plastic, losing up to a million tons of plastic ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a nearby super Earth that could potentially support alien life — drawing comparisons to theories surrounding Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS, which some ...

November’s supermoon is the second of three supermoons this year and also the closest: The moon will come within just under ...

Almost 63,000 Bay of Plenty residents live in locations exposed to flooding from “one-in-100-year” rainfall events, new research led by Earth Sciences New Zealand reveals. This number could increase ...

Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates, according to researchers.

Magnetic signatures hidden inside rocks tell us a lot about Earth's magnetic field and the way continents and tectonic plates have shifted across millennia – but for some periods, the geological ...

After years of federal efforts to revive nuclear power, old mines are stirring again in Wyoming, Texas and Arizona, while new ...

Earth’s climate balance isn’t just governed by the slow weathering of silicate rocks, which capture carbon and stabilize temperature over eons. New research reveals that biological and oceanic ...

Scientists reveal that an asteroid impact in Finland created a long-lasting habitat where microbes thrived millions of years ...