From a world shaped like a giant donut to a planet with the sharp edges of a perfect cube, changing the shape of Earth would ...

For three decades now, I have watched Earth warm—not through headlines or politics, but in my own data. Every year, the ...

The term “ecosystem engineering” has been used for decades as a way to describe organisms that drastically alter their ...

The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moons, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.

Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion years ago, before a colossal collision irreversibly altered the primitive ...

A 2025 satellite photo shows a particularly complex section of the Yarlung Zangbo River as it twists its way through the Tibetan Plateau. This part of the "braided" waterway has experienced drastic ...

About 85% of Alaska's land is underlain by permafrost, which is thawing at alarming rates. (Image credit: Brandt Meixell/USGS) The results have implications for the Arctic and Earth's climate more ...

Geophysicists have modeled how Earth’s magnetic field could form even when its core was fully liquid. By removing the effects of viscosity in their simulation, they revealed a self-sustaining dynamo ...

The endangered baby Komodo dragons were recently born at ZooTampa. By Margherita Bassi Published Oct 10, 2025 10:07 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) announces the release of its annual omnibus solicitation for basic and ...

Coccolithophores, tiny planktonic architects of Earth’s climate, capture carbon, produce oxygen, and leave behind geological records that chronicle our planet’s history. European scientists are ...

For thousands of years, Earth operated within a stable, forgiving range of conditions that allowed human civilizations to flourish. That stability might soon be a thing of the past. A new scientific ...