After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the ...

Oct. 30, 2024 — More accurate orbit predictions for satellites and space debris as well as a better understanding of the water masses present on Earth: Researchers at achieved both using ...

Africa's Sahara Desert may be considered a vast expanse of barren sand with limited vegetation, an extreme environment for plants and animals to thrive, but life always finds a way. Indeed ...

To put it bluntly, we know more about the curvature of Earth than almost any other topic in the realm of physical science. There are so many experiments, observations and demonstrations that have ...

Earth and environmental sciences cover all aspects of Earth and planetary sciences, and broadly encompasses solid Earth processes, surface and atmospheric dynamics, Earth system history, climate ...

November 5, 2024 • Black-footed ferrets are one of the most endangered mammals in North America with only an estimated 370 in the wild, according to the World Wildlife Fund.

Distrust in science and facts has always been around. Whether it was the debate about evolution or the age of the Earth, when science and belief are in conflict, people tend to lean into discrediting ...

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school. By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents ...

We cover the spread of Marburg virus, a stem cell treatment for diabetes and the way dolphins smile in this week’s news roundup.

The images were captured by NASA 's Landsat 9 satellite - an Earth observation satellite that ... That might have been considered science fiction 20 years ago, but scientists now warn that the ...

These findings, the 10 New Insights in Climate Change, are released annually by scientists at Future Earth, The Earth League, and the World Climate Research Programme. The group aims to provide ...