A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million ...

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

Longtime Houstonians -- including people who were born here -- explain their abiding love for this mystifying city.

Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky, ...

Scientists using seismic data tracked groundwater levels beneath the L.A. area. They found heavy rains in 2023 boosted ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to ...

Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...

A team of physicists at Fudan University, working with colleagues from Henan University, both in China, and from Nanyang ...

Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

Beavers and the dams they build are not always embraced in the areas where they do their work. But there's a growing recognition that they also are building a kind of natural infrastructure that helps ...

Nevertheless, we went every year to turn, foot and draw that turf home. I joked in 2020 that my turf-turning days were over when I bought an air to water, A-rated house in Bracknagh, Co Offaly, ...