A vast meshwork of soil-bound fungi governs life aboveground. In Alaska, and at field sites around the world, researchers are ...

April evenings provide views of the two brightest planets, though only one stands out. Jupiter gleams at magnitude –2.1 and ...

Exactly when and how plate tectonics started, however, is a matter of debate. Now, in a study published March 19 in the ...

From perfectly formed fruit to the downright unusual, pineapples of every shape and size were on display at this year’s ...

For years, Saturn made no sense. Measure its rotation rate using radio signals from its aurora and you get one number.

Seemingly unrelated weather systems illustrate how connected we are by larger patterns that move around in our atmosphere.

For decades, turbulence was treated as a known nuisance—unpredictable, occasionally dangerous, but broadly manageable within ...

The crew members of the nine Apollo missions to the Moon remain, to this day, the farthest-flung human beings in history. The Moon is, on average, 250,000 miles (400,000km) from the surface of the ...

Spend enough time in the cabin and you stop dreading turbulence. You start reading it. Every shudder, every unexpected lurch ...

This video reconstructs Pangaea, the massive supercontinent that existed around 200 million years ago, showing how today’s ...

The strikes carried out by both sides in the war have stretched across a vast area of more than four million square miles, as ...

Earth in Action, by Esri's Maps.com, brings planetary data to life, depicting the rise and fall of temperatures and the ...