In ancient China, spring rains were called "as precious as oil" for their vital role in nature's spring revival. Today, a unique climate phenomenon known as "spring persistent rainfall" (SPR) prevails ...

As the last ice age was ending, Australian megafauna that included giant kangaroos went extinct, and it is even more depressing than we thought.

Our planet’s last glacial period (colloquially known as the Ice Age) began around 115,000 years ago and lasted for over 103,000 years of the Pleistocene Epoch. During this time, ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission has successfully communicated with Earth, marking the start of an ambitious journey to map the cosmos.

What if expiration dates could tell us more than when something goes bad? Scientists have found that dates on plastic food ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

Earth is our home planet, and it's the only place in the universe where we know for certain that life exists. Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of gas and dust squished ...

It’s been a few years since FX announced plans to collaborate with Fargo‘s Noah Hawley on an Alien television series, but as we look ahead to the future, the project’s arrival is closer than ...

We are at a critical time and supporting climate journalism is more important than ever. Science News and our parent organization, the Society for Science, need your help to strengthen ...

More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex life by bulldozing land minerals and then depositing them in the ocean, according to ...

As Washington and Kyiv seek to finalise a deal on exploiting Ukraine's mineral resources, FRANCE 24 takes a look at rare earth metals and why they are important. Used in a wide range of ...

When asteroid 2024 YR4 was first discovered, there was a small chance it could impact Earth in 2032. However, the threat has significantly diminished after additional observations over the past month.