As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to ...

At least three old satellites or rocket bodies fall to Earth every day, a new report reveals. Some experts think it's a ...

Where does all that space junk go? And what does climate change have to do with it? The answers are on this episode of The ...

A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pile up—causing ripple effects across everything from ...

The sun may rise every morning, but the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface can substantially vary over decades.

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

When the ground shakes violently, entire cities can crumble within minutes. Homes, hospitals, roads, and lives can vanish ...

Because Earth rotates, these upper-altitude winds blow from west to east. Waves in the jet stream – a consequence of Earth’s rotation and variations in the surface land, terrain and oceans – can cause ...

Scientists have hypothesized since the 1960s that the Sun is a source of ingredients that form water on the Moon. When a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind smashes into the lunar ...